[OFB Cafe] Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush

[Fred Smith]

Wait, Wait, I thought that the candidate deserving of the tech vote
was the one allied with copyright holders and against personal privacy
(aka terrorisim).   That's what you said earlier when you were asking
us to support McCain over Obama.  Get your story straight.

Now, I completely agree that Biden nearly the worst person they could
have chosen for the role, but he's better than McCain by a long shot
on these issues.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> CNET colleague Declan McCullagh has a superb analysis of Dem. vice
> presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has an interesting (read:
> depressing) voting history when it comes to tech issues.
>
> In McCullagh's own words: "By choosing Joe Biden as their vice
> presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a
> mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career
> allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom
> of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation
> was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=329&tag=nl.e539
>
> --
> Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have
> to support your Windows anymore."
>
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