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Don't forget to thank your Congressperson if they voted NO.
by sehugg 15y ago
Don't forget to thank your Congressperson if they voted NO.
- tptacek 15y agoHow do you know your congressperson doesn't favor some worse intervention than CISPA? Because by HN standards, the Administration's favored course on "cybersecurity" is way worse.
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- r00fus 15y agoReward good behavior - it's the only way to train them.
- jongraehl 15y agoGood point. Obviously you'd let them know why you were thankful they voted no :)
- sehugg 15y agoEven if a worse intervention is planned (like the one you described above) wouldn't passage of CISPA help to validate it? Probably even make it easier to pass because the Internet's rage has already been depleted?
- tptacek 15y agoNo, that's not how legislation works. When you have two options, one an interventionist Democratic† bill and the other a self-regulating GOP bill, and the GOP bill passes, the Democratic bill does not find a more receptive Congress. † <--- again, note, actual Democrat typing
- slurgfest 15y agoYour scaremongering about an "interventionist Democratic bill" means exactly nothing until you have such a bill in the same position that CISPA is in today. Nor is there anything "self-regulating" about expansive internet surveillance . Let politicians be judged by their votes, not the imagined future plans attributed to them by whoever on no particularly reliable basis... http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml
- tptacek 15y agoIt's "self regulating" when it's voluntary and conducted by private companies. How could it not be?
- Joakal 15y agoYou don't. The thanks is for voting against CISPA bill that you disagree with. Summarily, people also rally against their congressperson if they vote poorly on something.