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He removed much of the verbiage but he still supports net neutrality (as evidenced in your link).

alecco 18y ago
I didn't say he stopped supporting Net Neutrality. I only said his campaign was caught changing their stance. Not even Obama himself, as I'm sure he doesn't have time to review edits on his website.
- Retric 18y ago
  If your read the old copy of his page it was much harder for an average voter to understand. So some staffer "cleaned it up" but there is no evidence he changed his mind on that topic.
  - alecco 18y ago
    Just now: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081103-obama-goes-gunning-for-geek-votes.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081103-obama-goes-gun... Perhaps more significantly, there is no reference to network neutrality, perhaps the single tech issue on which the gap between Obama and McCain is most pronounced. At the 2007 Google talk, Obama declared he would "take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality, because once providers start to privilege some applications or Web sites over others, then the smaller voices get squeezed out and we all lose." They edited out the Network Neutrality part of the videos. Ars Technica says it, not me. Go ahead, mod me down again. Have a nice cozy groupthink and keep voting whoever you fashion while shutting down any dissent. That can never go wrong, right?
    - Retric 18y ago
      Did you read the updated version they changed Information to Ideas but it says: Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet. Edit: I know it's an important issue to some people, but it's not something that's important to voters so it's going to get dropped from speeches.

I didn't say he stopped supporting Net Neutrality. I only said his campaign was caught changing their stance. Not even Obama himself, as I'm sure he doesn't have time to review edits on his website.

Retric 18y ago
If your read the old copy of his page it was much harder for an average voter to understand. So some staffer "cleaned it up" but there is no evidence he changed his mind on that topic.
- alecco 18y ago
  Just now: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081103-obama-goes-gunning-for-geek-votes.html http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081103-obama-goes-gun... Perhaps more significantly, there is no reference to network neutrality, perhaps the single tech issue on which the gap between Obama and McCain is most pronounced. At the 2007 Google talk, Obama declared he would "take a backseat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality, because once providers start to privilege some applications or Web sites over others, then the smaller voices get squeezed out and we all lose." They edited out the Network Neutrality part of the videos. Ars Technica says it, not me. Go ahead, mod me down again. Have a nice cozy groupthink and keep voting whoever you fashion while shutting down any dissent. That can never go wrong, right?
  - Retric 18y ago
    Did you read the updated version they changed Information to Ideas but it says: Ensure the Full and Free Exchange of Ideas through an Open Internet and Diverse Media Outlets Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet. Edit: I know it's an important issue to some people, but it's not something that's important to voters so it's going to get dropped from speeches.