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Tech at Night: CISPA opponents are vague, FCC overreach is constant

Tech at Night

CISPA’s proponents bent over backward to respond to reasonable complaints, but the extremists are still complaining. Anonymous and Mozilla (much of which is foreign, no?) are whining, but nobody ever points to any specific, offending verbiage of the bill. Am I the only one who reads tech bills before complaining about them?

Even Democrats are having to start acknowledging Republican expertise in tech leadership, though. Darrell Issa is the leader of quite a gang in DC.

FCC on the other hand…

FCC is still going to totally nuts. We’re now regulating channel numbers. Seriously. This is out of control.

We’re also arbitrarily delaying decisions because we’re not meeting our own deadlines, allegedly over a minor complaint that has been addressed. But no, there must be complaints and delays anyway. The rules must move to suit the extremists.

Extremists who now wish to silence critics of the administration ahead of the election. Funny, that.

A more interesting question the FCC is tackling: Should police be able to jam cellular phone signals in riot situations?

COMMENTS

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    If the Republicans retake the senate. The FCC, EPA, Justice, nearly every agency has become the exact power-mad tin plated dictators that we on the right always suspected they were.

    This administration has empowered them. We will really fail if our legislators don’t do something to hold their feet to the fire and reign in the abuses.

  • http://www.bestessay.com Best Essay

    The idea behind CISPA was to provide increased protection against cyber attacks, but it is slowly becoming just another way to gaining an easy access to private data by the authorities. It seems more and more that we trade privacy for security and this by no means is democracy in my opinion!

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    The above commenter was spamming for an academic cheating service, and manages to make the typical vague, unsourced anti-CISPA argument.

    Guys: you’re no better than the spammers. You’re failing.

  • sulmak

    But I would say no.

    They have foreign subsidiaries and branches, as nearly all large American organizations, so I guess some is.

    But it was founded in America, is headquartered in America, the board of directors all live here.