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• Sep 23rd, 2015 @ 10:06am

  Re:

  on Jeb Bush Proudly Promises To Axe Net Neutrality If Elected
  Not to mention the fact that holding up legislators (i.e. Congress) as a model of transparency in this day and age is laughable.
• Nov 13th, 2014 @ 12:21pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Republicans And Democrats Alike Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality; Why Don't GOP Officials In Congress Recognize This?
  Simple political calculus. The sad fact is, come election time, collecting campaign cash (from companies like AT&T or Verizon) is more likely to get you re-elected than supporting positions, even popular ones, that simply don't motivate voters. Unfortunately, outside of the TechDirtVerse, net neutrality is one of those issues.
• Jul 19th, 2013 @ 1:26pm

  (untitled comment)

  on Lindsey Graham: Boycott The Olympics Because Snowden, Putin, Hitler And Stalin (Oh My?)!
  So, what can I boycott because of Lindsey Graham?
• Jul 17th, 2013 @ 2:56pm

  Political Grandstanding

  on Texas Lawmaker Proposes Bill To Strip Funding From Schools That Abuse Zero Tolerance Weapons Policies
  The narrow crafting of this bill is a clear attempt to score political points rather than actually solve a real problem. Unfortunately, grandstanding like this has become a full time job for the vast majority of legislators, and it's not likely to stop until voters in this country start to recognize, and reject, their representative's efforts at pandering.
• Dec 21st, 2012 @ 1:53pm

  Re: NRA proposal (as Mark Peskin)

  on NRA: To Protect The 2nd Amendment, We Must Trample The 1st & 4th Amendments
  What a convenient and utterly baseless assumption. Can you provide any evidence at all that armed pilots or air marshals are responsible for the lack of another 9/11-style attack? We also armored cockpit doors, increased airport security, and focused more resources on intelligence gathering. Can you conclusively prove that those measures had nothing to do with the relative calm? Can you even demonstrate that we haven't just been lucky for the past decade? No, you can't, so stop being ridiculous.
• May 6th, 2010 @ 10:58am

  Re: Re: (as Mark Peskin)

  on Why Does The US Gov't Get To Patent Research Paid For By Public Tax Dollars?
  Realize there's a big difference between licensing and patent and selling it. If the government is licensing patents, they're not granting a monopoly to anyone - they're quite free to license the patent to as many different companies as they want.
  
  Frankly, while using the crappy patent system may not be the best way to go about it, it's perfectly reasonable for the government to recoup licensing revenue to compensate taxpayers for government funded research. Otherwise, government funded research would turn into a pure corporate subsidy. We have too many of those already...
• Apr 21st, 2010 @ 2:01pm

  Re: (as Mark Peskin)

  on No Surprise: MPAA Wouldn't Reveal Data On How It Came Up With Bogus 'Piracy' Numbers
  What agenda is that? The truth? Certainly you're not implying that TechDirt has a financial interest in making distorted claims (like the MPAA)?
• Feb 24th, 2010 @ 8:16am

  Politics... (as Mark Peskin)

  on Incredible: Google Execs Found Guilty Because Of YouTube Video; Given Six Month Suspended Sentences
  Not to question the independence of the Italian judicial system, but this decision has Berlusconi written all over it. He and his backers clearly feel threatened by any mass media that they don't own or control, and seem willing to use almost any means to discredit or clamp down on independent media...
• Jan 14th, 2010 @ 12:18pm

  (untitled comment) (as Mark Peskin)

  on French Court Forcing Google To Remove Word 'Scam' From Google Suggest
  Can we start a campaign to ensure the top suggestion for "cheese" is "eating surrender monkey" ?