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 11/22/09 at 11:48pm
ZippyDSMlee: AE:they feeding you well? I am enjoying win7 and heading to bed...uhg I need to get up early and start back to cleaning/painting blahg >< need tog et stuff done befor thanksgiving....
Posted 11/22/09 at 11:41pm
Andrew Eisen: Just got home from an eight hour recording session at Capitol Records. A lot of fun but damn exhausting.
Posted 11/22/09 at 08:44pm
BearDogg-X: 10 N. O. Who Dat?
Posted 11/22/09 at 09:45am
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I think doc phill is still sout about the break up with his wife he dose not fill holes as much as make them bigger these day
Posted 11/22/09 at 12:06am
JDKJ: You should get Phil McCraken to help you spackle those banisters.
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:57pm
ZippyDSMlee: Oh in the pirate hunter article I need my song ieda heckled DS,JD,Beemon sic im !!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:56pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:no I am tried from prepping the banisters for painting , worked on them from 12 to 4 and 6 to 8...after I got back from the store...got up early got ready...blah...been up all day..I need a nap...
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:42pm
JDKJ: No. You gonna stay up late tonight soldering?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:41pm
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:Don't you mean Mctite?
Posted 11/21/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: @Zip: Neil, Bob, and Lik McTaint. The McTaint brothers. LOL!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:44pm
Flamespeak: I still think military personell, killing other military personell, on a military complex should be handled by military courts.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I could see this a mixture of the two charges rather than just one or the other.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:43pm
Flamespeak: I think this was mainly a person who snapped, but evidence is showing he definitely had strong inlinations to islamic-extremism.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:41pm
Flamespeak: People are trying to claim that Hasan's actions were not terrorism. I don't jump on the 'terror train' like others, however
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:38pm
mentor07825: Britain certainly does deserve it! And the French! God damn it, it was a hand ball!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: mentor07825:Well Brittan dose deserve it....
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:33pm
ZippyDSMlee: Alyric:I don;t hasliburton having to pay back billoins... don;t you love it when the rich roll over the goverment without a care?
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:32pm
mentor07825: I say we nuke the whales, for the benefit of both mankind and the environment.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:28pm
Austin_Lewis: I say we try Al Gore too. I always said he was in on the racket.
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:16pm
Alyric: The leaked information proves these organizations knowingly defrauded governments (i.e., taxpayers) out of billions of dollars. Yet there will probably never be a trial.
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