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No... If I recall right, that was Steve King. Steve King was a congressman, not a senator. Maligning a single congressman does not invalidate the basic point th
by sn41 6y ago
No... If I recall right, that was Steve King. Steve King was a congressman, not a senator. Maligning a single congressman does not invalidate the basic point that a lot of senators are making.
- scarface74 6y agoOr the entire Senate calling the wrong CEO in to testify? https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/27/media/att-time-warner-senate-confusion/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/27/media/att-time-warner-senat... Can you name one positive law with regards to tech that the government has passed in the last 20 years? During the last hearing, many of the representatives were more concerned about Google and Facebook being “unfair” to conservatives. Well that and grilling Zuckerburg about Twitter’s practices.
- qppo 6y agoThat's not what the article you linked says. To the question though there really haven't been many federal laws regarding tech at all. It's kind of hard to find an example of anything that directly focuses on tech and has been around long enough to make a judgement whether it was good or bad.
- scarface74 6y agoThere have been plenty of laws. The two most famous ones are the DMCA and COPPA. And then there are the ones that were only stopped because of massive protests like SOPA and PIPA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA Not to mention regulations that killed the concept of net Neutrality. There are also constant mumblings about passing laws against encryption that the government can’t decrypt. The Snowden leaks should scare anyone about giving the government more power. It was in 1996, but there is also the CDA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act