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Marco Rubio on Technology
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Information age has changed world; people have not changed
What I sense from a lot of people I've been talking to was this fear that somehow America has changed--that are people changed. That's not true.Our people have not changed. The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who go to
work every day; who volunteer in their communities. What's changed is the world around us.
Just think how much the world has changed in the last ten years. The global economy is real--we don't live in the national economy anymore. Everything you buy-
everything you touch--it's all impacted by things that are happening halfway around the world. The information age is real. It's changed the world and it's made out life easier, but it's also changed our economy. You go into a grocery store today and
you'll find machines doing the job that people once did. You find today at many businesses that 1 person, because of automation, can do the work that 5 people used to do. It's the world around us that has changed. And this has had an impact on our people
Source: Speech at 2013 Conservative Political Action Conf.
, Mar 14, 2013
1st Senate candidate to pass 100,000 "likes" on Facebook
He understood the usefulness of 1-on-1 exchanges with voters at the speed of DSL. He even conducted press interviews via Twitter. In May 2009 the National Journal asked him via Twitter, "Numbers: How many cars do you own? How many houses? How many guns?
How many kids in public schools? He sent back his answers: "Own Ford F150 ('05); lease an Escalade; 2 houses(Miami and Tallahassee), no guns, 2 of 4 kids @FL Christian School in Miami." His advisors boasted that he was the 1st US Senate candidate to
pass 100,000 "likes" on Facebook. His staff uploaded his speeches to YouTube. The Twitter community can often sniff out someone who is paying a flunky to write their tweets, but Rubio fired out photographs of family that could only have come from him.
The digital investments during his campaign were 100% transferable to his new role as a US senator. Rubio's tweets lived on the Internet, and his followers stayed connected to him and multiplied. In 2012 he counted more than 70,000 followers on Twitter.
Source: The Rise of Marco Rubio, by Manuel Rogi-Franzia, p.183-184
, Jun 19, 2012
Co-sponsored PIPA to Protect IP, but withdrew his support
Rubio risked alienating conservatives because of his cosponsorship of a bill to combat Internet piracy and preserve intellectual property, known as PIPA, short for the Protect IP Act. The legislation seemed to be just the kind of intrusive government
regulation that Rubio would naturally oppose. Wikipedia, the ubiquitous Internet encyclopedia, went black on January 18 to protest PIPA and another Internet piracy measure. Conservatives were beginning to talk about mounting primary challenges against
Republicans, including Rubio, who supported the measures.It was too much for Rubio. The senator, smartly, took the Internet to announce that he was pulling his support for
PIPA. He made his announcement on his Facebook page. What could have been a political disaster turned into a political coup.
Source: The Rise of Marco Rubio, by Manuel Rogi-Franzia, p.194
, Jun 19, 2012
Invest in R&D and space exploration
Q: Do you support increasing funding for long term investment in research and development, particularly space exploration, energy, and/or medicine?A: I believe that research and development results in innovations that help drive
America's economic edge. However, we must continue to invest and improve our education system, space exploration and other programs to ensure our continued success.
Source: League of Women Voters 2010 Candidate Questionnaire
, Aug 11, 2010
E-budget website for detailed, issue-level budget
Florida Government Accountability Act- Create and empower a Sunset Advisory Committee to increase the effectiveness of the review process of state agencies and programs
- Policy Choices Should Drive Budget Choices
- Combine fiscal and substantive
committees into a single committee that will develop and fund the most appropriate policy issues for Florida
- Design an e-budget website that will display a detailed, issue-level budget and allow the public to comment on the budget
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future by Marco Rubio
, Nov 1, 2006
Protect against identity theft with privacy opt-in
Protection from Identity Theft- Enhance penalties for identity theft crimes that affect persons sixty-five years or older
- Make any unauthorized possession of another's personal identity information a felony
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Adopt an "opt in" policy that requires government and business to receive permission from citizens before distributing any of their personal information
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future by Marco Rubio
, Nov 1, 2006
Put budget online to allow public inspection and comment
Embedded in the budgetary system are details showing general appropriations acts are developed. Given one example of an increase in a program's contractual services, the detail in the budget system will show the reason for the increase (e.g., the state
was purchasing an increased amount of services). However, this detail is not included in the printed version of the General Appropriations Act.Florida will design an e-budget website that will display a detailed, issue-level budget and allow the publi
to comment on the budget. This budget will be restructured from an input-based methodology appropriating money for employees, salaries, travel ,furniture, and contracts, to a results-based approach.
The new e-budget will allow residents to view the
funding of the budget's service or program areas by category. Viewers will see the budget at various levels of complexity; departmental, program, service, and issue. The budget will be far more transparent and understandable.
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas, by Marco Rubio, p. 55-56
, Nov 1, 2006
Public-private partnerships to build & operate roadways
Christopher Dodd said, "American's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensible part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose." Problem:
Funding is inadequate to build and maintain a transportation system that meets Florida's expanding needs.
Solution: Government should collaborate with the private sector to fund, build, and maintain needed transportation improvements.
Currently, the private sector services in such areas as road and bridge construction, engineering design, construction inspection, roadway maintenance, and toll collection. Public-private partnerships
(PPPs) are comprehensive services that include design-build-finance-operate-maintain schemes, with the private sector receiving "payment" through tolls collected on a road or bridge, a direct payment from the "owner," or a combination of the two.
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas, by Marco Rubio, p. 78-79
, Nov 1, 2006
Increase criminal penalties for identity theft
Problem: There is an increasing number of identity theft crimes. The increase in technology and electronic communication has left individuals exposed to the dangers of identity theft and highlighted Florida's need to increase the criminal penalties to
protect its residents. In 2005, 9 million US citizens were victims of identity fraud, while fraud costs have risen from $53 billion in 2003 to over $56 billion in 2006. Regaining a clean credit record and securing personal information remain priorities
for the residents of Florida. Florida should base the felony level of identity theft crimes on the class of victim, as well as the monetary damage incurred. In Florida, any person convicted of an identity theft crime affecting a person
65 years or older will face enhanced penalties.
Current Florida law permits conviction for possession of another's identification information only of the state can prove intent to USE the information. We should eliminate the "use" requirement.
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas, by Marco Rubio, p. 86-87
, Nov 1, 2006
Protect kids from sex predators on Facebook & MySpace
Florida's children are in danger on the Internet. The Internet poses a serious threat to Florida's children. The growing popularity of online networking sites such as Facebook & MySpace provide online predators with easy avenues to lure and victimize
Florida's children. Users of these sites create online profiles or pages disclosing their interests, likes & dislikes. Numerous sex offenders nationwide have been convicted of victimizing children they met through these sites.To enhance child safety,
Florida will require social networking sites to set up verification systems to require parental notification and consent for minors to use these sites. The consent form should detail what data is collected from users, the disclosure practices of the site
operator, and what limits, of any, parents can place on their children's use of the site. Civil penalties will be enforced against anyone that falsifies or otherwise allows a minor access to the site without the proper parental notification and consent.
Source: 100 Innovative Ideas, by Marco Rubio, p. 98-99
, Nov 1, 2006
Withdrew support for policing websites for copyright.
Rubio signed PIPA: PROTECT IP Act
Congressional Summary:Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or the PROTECT IP Act, or PIPA (in the House, Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA) :
- Authorizes the Attorney General to seek a court order against an Internet site facilitating online piracy to require the operator to cease and desist further activities constituting copyright infringement, unauthorized trafficking of sound recordings or videos of live musical performances, or trafficking in counterfeit labels.
- Allows an intellectual property right holder harmed by a US-directed website used for infringement, to first provide a written notification identifying the site to related payment network providers and Internet advertising services requiring such entities to suspend their services.
- Requires online service providers, Internet search engines, payment network providers, and
Internet advertising services, upon receiving a court order relating to an AG action, to carry out preventative measures including withholding services from an infringing website or preventing users located in the US from accessing the infringing website.
OnTheIssues Notes: SOPA and PIPA, proponents claim, would better protect electronic copyright ("IP", or Intellectual Property). Opponents argue that SOPA and PIPA would censor the Internet. Internet users and entrepreneurs oppose the two bills; google.com and wikipedia.com held a "blackout" on Jan. 18, 2012 in protest. An alternative bill, the OPEN Act was proposed on Jan. 18 to protect intellectual property without censorship; internet businesses prefer the OPEN Act while the music and movie industries prefer SOPA and PIPA.
Source: HR3261/S968 11-S968 on May 12, 2011
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