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Originally Posted by DarkWizard12  What do liberals think about this? I thought one of the main ideas is that the internet should be held dear as the vessel of freedom of speech and expression(Thats how my PS Professor put it anyways...) |
I don't see an issue relating explicitly to the "Internet" and undermining of "
freedom of speech and expression". Do RIAA anti-piracy bill and encryption keys of early 90's reaffirm your beliefs? Hardly.
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Biden was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and introduced the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act in the 90s, requiring carriers of encrypted communications to turn the keys over to law enforcement, according to McCullagh.
Biden's bill spurred Philip Zimmerman to invent the PGP algorithm and publish it for free, McCullagh notes.
However, Zimmerman defends Biden. "Declan seems to be trying to draft me in his opposition to Biden, and, by extension, makes it seem as if I am against the Democratic ticket. I take issue with this," Zimmerman wrote Tuesday on Slashdot.
When someone serves in the Senate for 30 years, we have to judge them by their whole body of work. Much has happened since 1991. I don't know what Biden's position would be today on the issue of encryption, but I would imagine it has changed, because I can't think of any politicians today who would try to roll back our hard-won gains in our right to use strong crypto. In fact, considering the disastrous erosion in our privacy and civil liberties under the current administration [bush], I feel positively nostalgic about Biden's quaint little non-binding resolution of 1991 |
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