Joe Biden’s pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
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What, you expected me to let this go by without comment? There’s a blog/column named The Iconoclast by a Declan McCullagh, which warms the cockles of what passes for my heart. The guy could post a very interesting expose of Santa, should he decide to. Instead of Santa this time around, he did some background investigation on Joe Biden’s voting record.
None of this comes as the slightest surprise; I’d be surprised if the record didn’t look like this. But I wanted to share it with the nice people who read here, whether you march in lockstep (goose step?) with McCain, you drool whenever Obama says something, or you’re relatively sane and you vote 2nd party. In other words, the guy’s a career politician, in the truest sense of the phrase.
By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET’s Technology Voters’ Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
That’s probably okay with Barack Obama: Biden likely got the nod because of his foreign policy knowledge. The Delaware politician is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee who voted for the war in Iraq, and is reasonably well-known nationally after his presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008.