CNet Rates Congress on Tech Friendliness

CNet Rates Congress on Tech Friendliness

November 3, 2006
A revealing CNet report details the tech issue voting records of U.S. Senators and Representatives.

The report, compiled by reporters Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, examines votes on issues such as Internet policy, computer export restrictions, H-1B visas, free trade, research and development, electronic passports and class action lawsuits.

The Net neutrality issues was excluded. It's not entirely clear how the video game issue factored into CNet's ratings, although the report notes:
Overall, we rewarded politicians who viewed Web sites and computer software as deserving no more regulation than, say, books and magazines--an approach that handed poorer scores to anyone clamoring for new laws. That principle led us to take a dim view of a call for a federal probe of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and a proposal to target social-networking sites like MySpace.com.

Big winners include Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and George Allen (R-VA) (both seen at left). Leaders in the Houes of Representatives include Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) and Ron Paul (R-TX).

GP: A shout-out to reader Robert Brazil for the heads-up on this story!

Comments

"Boy, that George Allen is just finding his name everywhere these days." Just wait until Grand Theft Auto: Macaca comes out.
Captain, anti-gamers at 300 meters!

Fire first salvo.

Sir! A salvo fired from an unknown source! Wait one. It's the Media!


I know, a little over the top. I couldn't resist. :)
Boy, that George Allen is just finding his name everywhere these days. :)
@LordLundar-lol!!
@Lord Lundar: I, too, laugh with you.

@ dreamshade: Excellent!
The best part of the article, in my opinion (although I have mixed feelings about their scoring criteria): "Why did you score my boss so low?!?! He voted to protect our children on the Internet!"

The proper response: "Thank you for proving our point."

Some (make that many) people just. Don't. Get it.
It's good to see that some of the things we talk about here are also being talked about by the politicos. I wish more people would recognize the grandstanding for what it is.

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Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:05am
JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:03am
chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:56am
JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:45am
JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:37am
JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
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