How long before the Tech Sector goes full libertarian?

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http://www.wired.com/2016/04/senates-draft-encryption-bill-privacy-nightmare/

 

Kevin Bankston, the director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, goes even further: “I gotta say in my nearly 20 years of work in tech policy this is easily the most ludicrous, dangerous, technically illiterate proposal I’ve ever seen,” he says.

 

“This basically outlaws end-to-end encryption,” says Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It’s effectively the most anti-crypto bill of all anti-crypto bills.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Spirit]

Thanks Obama!

[Adam]

Hmmm sounds like progress has made its way into Silicon Valley

[Spirit]

Hmmm sounds like progress has made its way into Silicon Valley

 

 

[Thomas]

You ever read the comments in Slashdot or lwn?  It's been for 15 to 20 years.

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You ever read the comments in Slashdot or lwn?  It's been for 15 to 20 years.

 

I was talking more about the corporate level which, until now, has been more liberal -- not libertarian. 

[Thomas]

So the non-techy folk?

[Thomas]

On Thursday evening, the draft text of a bill called the â€œCompliance with Court Orders Act of 2016,” authored by offices of Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr

Shocking...  Was she bitten by a neo-con zombie around 1989? 

[mrwicked]

f*cking government is so f*cking stupid when it comes to this stuff.

[Thomas]

f*cking government is so f*cking stupid when it comes to this stuff.

 

How much is stupidity and how much is maliciousness masked by feigned ignorance?  I mean there is a ton of both but it's hard to figure out the exact ratio.

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So the non-techy folk?

 

Would you consider guys like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg as non-techy?

[Thomas]

Jobs was the easy one. Yes. 

 

Zuckerberg is techy but rather apolitical.

 

Gates is techy but his politics in the past seemed to be whatever benefited MS which went along with the US (and other) government's whim being one if not their best customers.  Now replace MS mostly with his foundation.

 

I think when you get that kind of wealth your political views alter radically.

 

However among the rank and file, the actual people who deal with tech as a primary function of their job, they notoriously lean libertarian when they are political which many of course are not. Ew social interaction ew!

[Spirit]

I, for one, am stoked that Thomas has reinserted himself into the political spin forum!  

 

Too sharp a mind and wit to remain on the sidelines. 

Edited April 10, 2016 by Geoff