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Bernie Sanders actually, check out the links.

> A principled president would have owned up to the misconduct and taken steps to regain the public trust. A principled president would be ashamed of the chilling effect on journalists.

There were only two Senators who voted against the "Freedom" Act [1] and also supported defensible net neutrality [2]. One of them is now a presidential candidate.

Last May, they wrote: "I voted against the Patriot Act every time, and it still needs major reform." [3]

[1] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...

[2] http://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/to-protect-...

[3] http://time.com/3850839/bernie-sanders-usa-patriot-act/

Bernie Sanders wants to break up the banks that took bailout money, creating smaller banks that are no longer "too big to fail." What are people's thoughts on this proposal?

Is there a definitive list somewhere? If there was, a boycott could be organized.

> This way people will actually switch. Programmers won't change without being forced.

Nobody likes being forced though. I think that attitude, which is condescending by its nature, is what has been turning people away from Python, in the wake of the version 3 changes.

Could you send a source?

I'm seeing this [1]:

> Michael Briggs, a Sanders campaign spokesman, told ABC News that the “vendor who runs the DNC's voter file program continues to make serious errors” and that the “the firewall between the data of different Democratic campaigns” has failed “on more than one occasion.”

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26373...

Interesting article, though it left out some context.

The Sanders campaign tried to report this issue months ago [1]. Nathaniel Pearlman, the founder of NGP, now NGP VAN, was CTO of Hillary's 2008 run for president [2]. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Chair of the DNC, was campaign co-chair of Hillary's 2008 run for president [3]. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton, has criticized the DNC for being biased against the Sanders campaign several times [4] [5].

[1] http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26373...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Pearlman

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz

[4] https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1119794974699764

[5] https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/posts/1120402367972358

Has he taken a stance against net neutrality recently? He seems to have taken a stance around 2007 that regulation might be detrimental to innovation. I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on the FCC's 2014 ruling, and if he felt those regulations specifically were negative or positive.

Rand Paul is actually fighting against net neutrality http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-neutrality-id...

"Remove Debbie Wasserman Schultz as DNC Chair" http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/remove-debbie-wasserman?sou... 40,491 signatures so far

Bernie Sanders and Tammy Baldwin are pretty consistent when it comes to supporting privacy and the internet. They were actually the only two Senators who voted against the "Freedom" Act [1] who also supported net neutrality [2]. Both also voted against the "Patriot" Act in 2001, while they served in the House [3].

[1] http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c...

[2] http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/press-releases/us-senator-tamm... & http://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/to-protect-...

[3] http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml

> I understand mobile support for iOS/Android only. I don't understand Chrome as a platform

> Mobile numbers.. Why?

Pidgin + OTR works on Linux, and doesn't relate to mobile numbers or Chrome at all. This might be a better fit for you.

And they generated a hefty amount of "terror debt" along the way.

Lessig and Nader are so different though. Lessig is being perhaps overly cautious, and bailing after the Democratic Party changed the rules and excluded him from the debates (boo). Nader stayed in the 2000 race until the end, even campaigning in states where Gore and Bush were neck-and-neck.

Nader even concentrated on states where Bush and Gore were neck-and-neck.

> A first, eloquent protest came 10 days ago from a group of a dozen former 'Nader's Raiders,' who asserted that their former mentor had broken a promise not to campaign in states where he could hurt Gore and begged him to reconsider doing so.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-in...

Also the IRC/XMPP bridge has to be specifically enabled by a team admin. After this, the bridge can be disabled at any time by team admins.

https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...

> Let's all jump on the bandwagon of another closed-source, proprietary, walled-garden service and hand over all of our private intra-company communications to a private third-party in another country. GREAT IDEA.

Well said, I chuckled. Let me just add something...

If you want a paper trail of anything, use an email you own.

I have a friend who was locked out of a startup's Slack right before he was due to be paid for three months of work. He had been discussing business inside of Slack, and instantly lost access to all of those messages.

Could this have happened if the startup used a private email server, or a private IRC server? Of course. But if they were using more open protocols, he would have at least been able to back up the messages. Slack provides an easy tool for backups to admins, but not for normal team members. Slack provides an API for all users, but team admins can disable the API. Slack also allows team members to connect over IRC and XMPP, if team admins turn on that feature (https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec...).

Slack is great, I love using it. Just remember who owns the data. Always use your own personal email if you want to create a papertrail, as my friend found out.

Agreed - I think this article is highlighting monetary investment, since that was a metric the telecom industry claimed Title II net neutrality would reduce.

CISA impacts more people, to say the least

Cool, thanks for elaborating on your stance

I was just responding to what you'd said above:

> I do see lots of places in the bill that allow sharing to other private entities or to the USG for cybersecurity purposes.

Well, wouldn't it be more productive to write your own blog post(s) on why CISA should be opposed?

I'm not sure what your point is, regarding technologists.

Sounds like a loophole.

How many comments have you made expressing your opposition, versus painting groups fighting CISA in a negative light?

> Virtually all of EFF's policy advocacy, I find untrustworthy. I don't even believe they take it seriously.

This is an interesting conspiracy theory.

> Is it really that hard for you to see that as a plausible narrative?

My theory is that they really believe in what they're doing. They are based in SF, so they are surrounded by well-funded startups offering high salaries. Employees of EFF could be making small fortunes, and instead they choose to fight to secure civil rights. Why? Because some people value freedom over currency. This narrative seems more plausible.

You can find some on The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/).

Not if the attacker deletes the message post-pwnage.

> Yet another tool that makes it easy to write your representative. As though this is an actual problem. It isn't. The Market is saturated with so many tools to send messages to Congress. Especially electronic ones. Whether it be Blue State Digital, Change.org, BlackBaud, Salsa, or the plethora of other online tools, this problem is solved.

Congrats on founding & selling Blue State Digital, Joe.

Holder's actual quote was so short in the article, it's hard to know exactly what he was referring to. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯