Amy Klobuchar on Internet: (Technology Apr 27, 2021)
Net neutrality must be restored and zealously protected

The internet must be equally accessible to all households and families-without discrimination, without regard to whether a person lives in a big city, or on a farm, and without favoring big companies over small businesses and individual citizens.

Vladimir Putin on Internet: (Technology Feb 22, 2021)
Sanction online platforms for censoring Russian media

Deb Haaland on Internet: (Technology Dec 11, 2020)
Would park near wi-fi hot spot to do homework with daughter

Howie Hawkins on Internet: (Technology Jul 12, 2020)
We support all efforts to achieve net neutrality

• We support all efforts to achieve net neutrality. Internet users should be able to access any lawful web content they choose and use any applications they choose, without restrictions or limitations imposed by their Internet service provider or government, except for restrictions that exist to prevent spam e-mail, viruses, and similar content that will harm the provider's network or internet access devices.
• Return ownership and control of the electromagnetic spectrum to the public.
• We urge the public to reclaim the airwaves. The privatization of the broadcast airwaves has caused serious deformations of our politics and culture.
• End the privatization of broadcast frequencies and reserve them for the creation of new not-for-profit community broadcasters around the country and for broadband and wifi networks owned and operated by cities, counties and towns.

Bernie Sanders on Internet: (Principles & Values Feb 19, 2020)
Disowns vicious internet trolls

Donald Trump on Internet: (Technology Feb 4, 2020)
New roads, bridges & tunnels, plus high-speed rural internet

Congressional Summary: S.2302 addresses several provisions related to highway transportation infrastructure, including provisions to accelerate project completions, improve resiliency to disasters, and reduce highway emissions, [including]:

• a bridge investment program to award competitive grants
• new climate-related grant programs, including for carbon reduction
• expands the flexibility provided out of the Highway Trust Fund; and
• prioritizes animal detection systems that reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions.

Mike Bloomberg on Internet: (Gun Control Jan 20, 2020)
Close "boyfriend loophole," pass national red flag law

Mike's plan will close the "boyfriend loophole" which allows domestic abusers to have guns, despite criminal convictions or restraining orders--simply because they are not married to their victims. It will pass a federal red flag law that expands extreme risk orders to 50 states. It will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old to buy handguns and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. And it will set a temporary ban on gun possession by assault and other violent misdemeanor offenders.

Mike Bloomberg on Internet: (Technology Jan 20, 2020)
Invest in growth hubs to generate breakthroughs & jobs

Deval Patrick on Internet: (Technology Dec 24, 2019)
Additional spending on cybersecurity and robotics

Patrick's campaign website promises increased investment in cybersecurity, expanded broadband internet, and emerging technology sectors such as robotics.

As governor, he expanded funding for technology research, especially biotech and information technologies.

Tom Steyer on Internet: (Technology Dec 24, 2019)
Supports net neutrality rules

Andrew Yang on Internet: (Health Care Dec 19, 2019)
Invest in "telehealth" allowing internet access to doctors

Andrew Yang on Internet: (Technology Dec 19, 2019)
Internet users should have property rights to their data

Tom Steyer on Internet: (Technology Nov 7, 2019)
We need to hit reset button on how we think about technology

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Principles & Values Sep 14, 2019)
Russian hackers paid internet trolls to attend Trump rallies

But the summer of 2016, American intelligence had picked up on some troubling actions by Putin and his operators in Russia. Behind the scenes, Russian hackers and operatives had been hard at work the years before laying the groundwork for an attack on the very roots of American democracy--an army of internet trolls, working out of Moscow, not only spread propaganda and disinformation online, but also actively paid Americans to protest.

Russians even set up real American bank accounts and actively recruited Americans to perform for them. The troll farm paid one man to build a wooden cage, and another woman to dress up in a Hillary Clinton costume--and then she rode in the cage at a pro-Trump rally and chanted "lock her up!"

Joe Sestak on Internet: (Education Jul 9, 2019)
Universal pre-K; create "Training for a Lifetime"

Joe Sestak on Internet: (Education Jul 9, 2019)
Universal pre-K; tuition grants; increased job training

Joe Sestak on Internet: (Jobs Jul 9, 2019)
$1 trillion for infrastructurel create infrastructure bank

Joe Sestak on Internet: (Technology Jul 9, 2019)
Invest $1 trillion on infrastructure

Joe Sestak on Internet: (Education Jun 23, 2019)
Support Common Core and expand pre-K

Priorities:
• Expand early childhood education to all 4-year-olds.
• Support state-led efforts like Common Core to create unified benchmarks for success.
• Increase broadband Internet connectivity across the country, especially in underserved rural and urban areas..

Pete Buttigieg on Internet: (Principles & Values Jun 11, 2019)
The world needs America at our best

Michael Bennet on Internet: (Gun Control Jun 2, 2019)
People support background checks, GOP Senate won't allow it

Michael Bennet on Internet: (Gun Control Jun 2, 2019)
Colorado experience shows gun control can work

Howie Hawkins on Internet: (Technology May 19, 2019)
Public broadband; public ownership of online platforms

Online platforms like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Uber tend toward monopoly because people gravitate to the platforms that have the most users and information. These monopolies are abusing data collection and privacy, censoring content, and eliminating competitors through predatory pricing and buyouts. The remedy is a combination of antitrust action to divest tech conglomerates of multiple platforms and the conversion of some platforms to public utilities that serve the public interest.

Seth Moulton on Internet: (Technology May 2, 2019)
Rebuild our economy by rebuilding our infrastructure

Donald Trump on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 23, 2019)
Mueller Report: Russia bought pro-Trump social media ads

To reach larger U.S. audiences, the IRA purchased advertisements from Facebook that promoted the IRA groups on the newsfeeds of U.S. audience members. According to Facebook, the IRA purchased over 3,500 advertisements, and the expenditures totaled approximately $100,000.

IRA-purchased advertisements referencing candidate Trump largely supported his campaign. The first known IRA advertisement explicitly endorsing the Trump Campaign was purchased on April 19, 2016, for its Instagram account "Tea Party News" asking US persons to upload photos with the hashtag "#KIDS4TRUMP." In subsequent months, the IRA purchased dozens of advertisements supporting the Trump Campaign, predominantly through the Facebook groups.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 23, 2019)
Russia made up voter fraud story & Trump campaign re-posted

Posts from the IRA-controlled Twitter account @TEN_GOP were cited or retweeted by multiple Trump Campaign officials, including Donald J. Trump Jr., Eric Trump, & Kellyanne Conway. These posts included allegations of voter fraud, as well as allegations that Secretary Clinton had mishandled classified information.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 23, 2019)
Campaign supplied Russians, without knowing it was Russia

In sum, the [Mueller] investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election through the social media campaign carried out by the IRA. IRA employees violated US law through these operations, principally by undermining through deceptive acts the work of federal agencies charged with regulating foreign influence in U.S. elections.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 23, 2019)
Mueller Report: Russia bought anti-Hillary social media ads

IRA Facebook groups active during the 2016 campaign covered a range of political issues and included purported conservative groups (with names such as "Being Patriotic," "Stop All Immigrants," "Secured Borders," and "Tea Party News").

Throughout 2016, IRA accounts published an increasing number of materials supporting the Trump Campaign and opposing the Clinton Campaign. As early as March 2016, the IRA purchased advertisements that overtly opposed the Clinton Campaign. For example, on April 6, 2016, the IRA purchased advertisements for its account "Black Matters," calling for a "flashmob" of U.S. persons to take a photo with #HillaryClintonForPrison2016 or #nohillary2016." IRA-purchased advertisements featuring Clinton were, with very few exceptions, negative.

Bernie Sanders on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 23, 2019)
Mueller Report: Russia bought pro-Bernie social media ads

The IRA's Twitter operations created individual U.S. personas, and also operated a "hot network" of automated Twitter accounts, that enabled the IRA to amplify existing content on Twitter.

The IRA continuously posted original content to the accounts while also communicating with U.S. Twitter users directly (through public tweeting or Twitter's private messaging). The IRA used many of these accounts to attempt to influence U.S. audiences on the election.

The IRA provoked reactions from users and the media. Multiple IRA-posted tweets gained popularity. U.S. media outlets also quoted tweets from IRA-controlled accounts and attributed them to the reactions of real U.S. persons. Individualized accounts included @MissouriNewsUS (an account with 3,800 followers that posted pro-Sanders and anti-Clinton material).

Julian Castro on Internet: (Welfare & Poverty Apr 22, 2019)
ConnectHome: Support affordable housing

In 2016, HUD launched a fund that provided $173 million in grants to create affordable housing. He also put in practice the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, which required cities that receive federal money to examine potential biases in housing opportunities, per CNBC.

Seth Moulton on Internet: (Homeland Security Mar 31, 2019)
Focus on cybersecurity to deal with real threats to US

Julian Castro on Internet: (Welfare & Poverty Mar 27, 2019)
Government can help needy families get back on their feet

Jay Inslee on Internet: (Technology Mar 10, 2019)
Regulate internet to protect privacy & net neutrality

Elizabeth Warren on Internet: (Corporations Mar 8, 2019)
Breaking up big internet companies is doable and necessary

Vladimir Putin on Internet: (Crime Dec 28, 2018)
Softens punishment for first-time offenders for hate crimes

Bernie Sanders on Internet: (Government Reform Nov 27, 2018)
Mainstream media focuses on gossip, lies, & personality

The internet and social media now allow for the worldwide transmission of total lies, and the capability of targeting those lies to susceptible populations.

Further, recent studies show what the average American has long known. More and more mainstream media political coverage is devoted to gossip and issues of personality, and less and less to the major problems facing our country and the world. During the last presidential campaign, for example, there was almost no discussion devoted to climate change, the greatest environmental crisis facing our planet. There was hardly a mention that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, 40 million Americans live in poverty, or that we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of nearly any major country.

Amy Klobuchar on Internet: (Technology Nov 1, 2018)
Opposes recent FCC decision to eliminate net neutrality

Klobuchar: Yes. Opposes recent FCC decision to eliminate net neutrality.

Newberger: Unknown.

Ron DeSantis on Internet: (Technology Nov 1, 2018)
Net neutrality was an FEC massive power grab

DeSantis: No. Obama-era FCC requirement for net neutrality was a "massive power grab."

Gillum: Yes. FCC decision to dismantle was an attack on FL communities & residents.

Deb Haaland on Internet: (Technology Oct 9, 2018)
Supports net neutrality and public internet infrastructure

Ron DeSantis on Internet: (Technology Oct 9, 2018)
FCC requirement for net neutrality was a massive power grab

Ron DeSantis (R): No. Obama-era FCC requirement for net neutrality was a "massive power grab."

Andrew Gillum (D): Yes. FCC decision to dismantle was an attack on FL communities & residents.

Ted Cruz on Internet: (Technology Oct 9, 2018)
Net neutrality puts government in charge of internet

Ted Cruz (R): No. Net neutrality puts government in charge of pricing, products & services.

Beto O'Rourke (D): Yes. Rolling back net neutrality hurts democracy, the arts & innovation.

Beto O`Rourke on Internet: (Technology Oct 9, 2018)
Rolling back net neutrality hurts democracy

Ted Cruz (R): No. Net neutrality puts government in charge of pricing, products & services.

Beto O'Rourke (D): Yes. Rolling back net neutrality hurts democracy, the arts & innovation.

Steve Bullock on Internet: (Technology Jan 24, 2018)
Signed executive order requiring net neutrality

Stacey Abrams on Internet: (Energy & Oil Aug 17, 2017)
Clean energy key to jobs & innovation

Elizabeth Warren on Internet: (Technology Apr 18, 2017)
Public spending on research is investing in ideas

We had long invested in infrastructure, but now we were even bolder: America was investing in ideas. The results were transformative; basic research that eventually led to the Internet, GPS, and a map of the human genome.

For me, this is the basic American contract. We all pay taxes, and in return we all benefit--sometimes immediately, sometimes down the road--and we also help build opportunity for the generations to come. I first tried to put this into words in 2011 when I was thinking about running for the Senate: "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own--nobody." My point was that everyone who succeeds gets some help from the investments we've all made. And we keep on making those investments so the next kid will get a chance, too.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Technology Apr 3, 2017)
Repeal internet privacy rules: let companies sell ad info

The bill uses a little-known tool called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that allows the president to overturn recently passed agency regulations. Before Trump took office, the CRA had only been successfully passed once, under Pres. Bush in 2001. Trump has signed 10 bills overturning Obama-era regulations, including the internet privacy rule.

The bill caused an uproar when it passed the House and Senate last month, with critics accusing Republicans of selling their constituents' privacy.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Technology Oct 9, 2016)
Proportional response to eliminate cyberattacks

TRUMP: The United States government should not spy on its own citizens. That will not happen in a Trump administration. As for protecting the Internet, any attack on the Internet should be considered a provocative act that requires the utmost in protection and, at a minimum, a proportional response that identifies and then eliminates threats to our Internet infrastructure.

CLINTON: I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack. We will be ready with serious political, economic and military responses and we will invest in protecting our governmental networks and national infrastructure.

JILL STEIN: Negotiate international treaty banning cyberwarfare; create a new UN agency tasked with identifying the sources of cyber attacks.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Oct 9, 2016)
Respond to cyberattacks economically & militarily

CLINTON: As President, I will fight to ensure that the Internet remains a space for free exchange, providing all people equal access to knowledge and ideas. While we must protect this exchange and the privacy of individuals, we must also invest in cybersecurity, which is not only essential to our national and economic security, but will become increasingly important as devices across sectors are networked. As president I will make it clear that the United States will treat cyberattacks just like any other attack. We will be ready with serious political, economic and military responses and we will invest in protecting our governmental networks and national infrastructure. I believe the United States should lead the world in setting the rules of cyberspace. If America doesn't, others will.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Technology Sep 26, 2016)
We invented Internet but ISIS is beating us at our own game

A: We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we're not. I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She's saying "Russia, Russia, Russia," but I don't. Maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? We came up with the Internet, and Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the Internet, they're beating us at our own game. So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that's true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better and certainly cyber is one of them.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (War & Peace Sep 26, 2016)
Take out current ISIS leaders like we took out bin Laden

Amy Klobuchar on Internet: (Foreign Policy Jun 12, 2016)
Fight ISIS Internet recruiting, but don't indict Islam

KLOBUCHAR: Having been the local prosecutor during 9/11 when they caught Moussaoui, in our state [Minnesota], I know that you want to make sure that you have the evidence clear before you make statements about a solution. But we know some of the things that have to happen here. The continual work to root out this evil at its roots at the enclave of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, to stop the flow of the international money, to go after the recruiting that we've seen in the US over the Internet.

Q: In Minnesota, there have been numerous cases about people being recruited to part of the ISIS campaign?

KLOBUCHAR: Yes; dozens of indictments & recent jury verdicts. And what we've found is that individual people are recruited over the Internet. No mom wants their kid recruited to go fight for ISIS. You don't want to indict an entire religion, you don't want to indict an entire community over a lone wolf.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Jan 20, 2016)
Must continue to make technology accessible

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Jan 12, 2016)
We protected an open internet & got more Americans online

That's who we are, and over the past seven years, we've nurtured that spirit. We've protected an open Internet, and taken bold new steps to get more students and low-income Americans online. We've launched next-generation manufacturing hubs and online tools that give an entrepreneur everything he or she needs to start a business in a single day. But we can do so much more.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Technology Dec 15, 2015)
Close our Internet up, to fight ISIS terrorist recruitment

TRUMP: ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea. I want to get our brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS cannot do what they're doing. You talk freedom of speech. I don't want them using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth. We should be using our most brilliant minds to figure a way that ISIS cannot use the Internet. And then we should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS. And we can do that if we use our good people.

Q: So, are you open to closing parts of the Internet?

TRUMP: I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I don't want to let people that want to kill us \use our Internet.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Technology Sep 25, 2015)
Net neutrality is top down power grab of the Internet

Given Trump's current war with Fox News, he may be reconsidering his defense of conservative media. But in any case, the defense is ill-placed: The Fairness Doctrine--an FCC policy from the late '40s that said broadcasters must present issues in an honest, equitable, and balanced way--was eliminated in 1987. It has nothing to do with Net neutrality.

As one pundit noted, "How keeping the Internet accessible to everyone is somehow a power grab, or how it will somehow oppress conservatives, is beyond us. The Fairness Doctrine required equal time for opposing views; Net neutrality allows any idiot to use the Internet however he so chooses, without having to pay extra fees in order for people to actually see it.."

Bernie Sanders on Internet: (Technology Sep 5, 2015)
Net Neutrality: no preferential treatment for corporations

• The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act of 2015 would prevent Internet providers from creating a "fast lane" for paying content providers and would enforce net neutrality over preferential treatment .

  In 2007, Bernie introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, which would have required broadband service providers to adhere to neutrality provisions and other regulations.

  In 2006, Bernie introduced the Network Neutrality Act, which also would have enforced net neutrality on broadband providers.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Jobs Aug 16, 2015)
Don't raise minimum wage, but create more opportunities

TRUMP: I want to keep the minimum wage pretty much where it is right now. Because of the fact that we have a country that is now competing more than ever before because of airplanes, and transportation, and the internet. If we raise it we're not going to be able to compete with the rest of the world. What I do want to do is bring in jobs so much so that people don't have to live on minimum wage. But we are going to have to compete with the rest of the world.

Ted Cruz on Internet: (Homeland Security Jun 30, 2015)
Benghazi: administration knew right away it was terrorism

The administration's feckless response to Benghazi was emblematic of President Obama's long-standing approach to radical Islamic terrorism--three words that almost never enter his vocabulary in the same sentence. In his worldview, the real root problem behind terrorism is disaffected youth who have been antagonized by American and Western imperialism. He and his administration dogmatically refuse to call terrorism "Islamic" or "Islamist," nor will they reference "jihad."

Ted Cruz on Internet: (Health Care Feb 26, 2015)
Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want liberty

As for his GOP rivals also eyeing the White House, Cruz seemed to raise doubts about their credentials and called on the audience to demand that all presidential aspirants demonstrate their conservative bona fides: "Demand action, not talk," Cruz said. "If a candidate tells you that they oppose ObamaCare, fantastic! But when have you stood up and fought against it? If a candidate says they oppose Obama's illegal executive amnesty, terrific. When have you stood up and fought against it?

"Repeal every blasted word of ObamaCare," Cruz concluded.

Arvin Vohra on Internet: (Homeland Security Jan 20, 2015)
Intelligently rethink overall military spending

Ted Cruz on Internet: (Technology Nov 29, 2014)
Net neutrality is ObamaCare for the Internet

Companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Yelp--through their Washington trade group, the Internet Association--are public backers of net neutrality. They together have praised Obama for endorsing an approach that might subject the Internet to utility-like regulation. All three Republicans, however, rejected the president's suggestion. Rubio hammered it as "government regulation of the Internet" that "threatens to restrict Internet growth and increase costs on Internet users." And Cruz lambasted net neutrality as "ObamaCare for the Internet" in a tweet that went viral--and drew plenty of criticism.

Rand Paul on Internet: (Technology Nov 29, 2014)
Oppose net neutrality; Silicon Valley has no uniform support

Companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Yelp--through their Washington trade group, the Internet Association--are public backers of net neutrality. They together have praised Obama for endorsing an approach that might subject the Internet to utility-like regulation. All three Republicans, however, rejected the president's suggestion.

To hear Paul tell it, the party hasn't hurt its standing among the tech crowd. He and others, for example, have backed high-skilled labor reforms in the past. The GOP senator also stressed that support for net neutrality is "not actually uniform throughout Silicon Valley."

Ted Cruz on Internet: (Technology Mar 7, 2014)
Net neutrality is biggest regulatory threat to the Internet

Cruz posted a video on YouTube that showed him explaining net neutrality and how it works. He asks his viewers what happens when you put regulations in place. "It froze everything place." Placing his hand on the landline phone he says "This is regulated." He then holds up a cell phone and says "This is not. Your smartphone, the Internet, the apps--the innovation is happening without having to go to government regulators and say, 'Mother, may I?' We want a whole lot more of this [holds up a cell phone] and whole lot less of this [points at the landline phone]."

Justin Amash on Internet: (Homeland Security Nov 30, 2013)
Led fight in House against domestic NSA surveillance

Bill de Blasio on Internet: (Technology Oct 22, 2013)
Create public Wi-Fi hot zones & citywide broadband

Bill de Blasio will ensure that affordable, high-speed fiber Internet reaches all New York City households within five years. The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) need to introduce new franchise agreements to wire more city infrastructure and create greater oversight and accountability in current telecommunications agreements. Bill de Blasio will work with Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and local Chambers of Commerce to create public Wi-Fi hot zones around economic development hubs across the city

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Feb 12, 2013)
Fix It First: urgent repairs like 70,000 bridges

Tonight, I propose a "Fix-It-First" program to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country. And to make sure taxpayers don't shoulder the whole burden, I'm also proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm; modern schools worthy of our children. Let's prove that there is no better place to do business than the United States of America. And let's start right away.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Sep 4, 2012)
Free and open Internet is essential to modern economy

A: A free and open Internet is essential component of American society and of the modern economy. I support legislation to protect intellectual property online, but any effort to combat online piracy must not reduce freedom of expression, increase cybersecurity risk, or undermine the dynamic, innovative global Internet. I also believe it is essential that we take steps to strengthen our cybersecurity and ensure that we are guarding against threats to our vital information systems and critical infrastructure, all while preserving Americans' privacy, data confidentiality, and civil liberties and recognizing the civilian nature of cyberspace.

Ted Cruz on Internet: (Homeland Security Sep 1, 2012)
Opposes TSA and National Defense Authorization Act

Civil Liberties
• Opposes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
• Opposes TSA
• Opposes SOPA and other internet censorship

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Jun 14, 2012)
Condemned China's use of Internet to monitor dissidents

She singled out Tunisia and Egypt, but the country to which Clinton devoted the most attention in her speech was China. Later, Google publicly threatened to pull out of China because of cyberattacks on its email system and the targeting of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists. Clinton's response was swift and pointed: She called on the Chinese government to investigate the attacks on Google. Countries that engage in such attacks "should face consequences and international condemnation," she said.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Jun 14, 2012)
Media change since Clinton: intravenous Internet news feed

Such a change may at first seem inconsequential, but the staffer argued that it has had a profound impact. "You have to resist the temptation to be totally reactive to everything you're hearing minute to minute." He said one of Obama's strengths was that he didn't get "distracted by the daily or hourly turbulence."

Nikki Haley on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 3, 2012)
Calling me a "raghead" reinforces S.C.'s worst stereotypes

Jake Knotts is a self-described "redneck" with a reputation for...let's just say "blunt" language. As far as I was concerned, he was the poster boy for everything that is wrong with South Carolina politics.

His comments would go national. At a time when I wanted people to feel good about our state, he was an example of why we've been regarded as a bunch of uneducated, backwoods racists. That was the saddest, most regrettable thing about the senator's bigoted remark: Jake Knotts doesn't reflect the views of most South Carolinians, but here he was, reinforcing everyone's worst stereotypes and prejudices about our state.

Rand Paul on Internet: (Technology Jan 18, 2012)
Filibuster against SOPA and PIPA: don't censor the Internet

"The Internet's development is based on the free flow of information, innovation, and ideas, not central government control," Sen. Paul said. "Both PIPA & SOPA give the federal government unprecedented & unconstitutional power to censor the Internet. These bills enable the government to shut down websites that it deems guilty of violating copyright laws. While we support copyright protections, we are also concerned about websites being shut down without their day in court, and making innocent third parties bear the costs of solving someone else's problems."

Sen. Paul concluded, "I will not sit idly by while PIPA and SOPA eliminate the constitutionally protected rights to due process and free speech. For these reasons, I have pledged to oppose, filibuster and do everything in my power to stop government censorship of the Internet."

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Jan 18, 2012)
PIPA: When information is stifled, Internet is diminished

Hillary Clinton captured the problem best in her response to SOPA/PIPA: "When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled, and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us," Clinton stated. "There isn't an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There's just the Internet."

This week, SOPA was shelved (though many believe it's not gone for good).

Joe Biden on Internet: (Technology Nov 1, 2011)
Internet is new public space; make it a force for democracy

More than 5 billion people will connect to the Internet in the next 20 years. And most of them will live in countries and regions that are now under-represented online. The benefits they'll derive from it are going to depend in large degree on the choices all of us today make. The Internet itself is not inherently a force for democracy or oppression, for war or for peace. Like any public square or any platform for commerce, the Internet is neutral. But what we do there isn't neutral. It's up to us to decide whether and how we will protect it against the dangers that can occur in cyberspace while maintaining the conditions that give rise to its many benefits.

Joe Biden on Internet: (Technology Nov 1, 2011)
No exclusive government control over Internet resources

So the United States stands behind the current approach which harnesses the best of governments and private sector and civil society to manage the technical evolution of the Internet in real time. This public-private collaboration has kept the Internet up and running all over the world.

Donald Trump on Internet: (Gun Control Feb 10, 2011)
I am against gun control

In his CPAC speech, Trump sounded many themes popular with Republican conservatives. "I am pro-life," he said. "I am against gun control."

And in one of his biggest applause lines, Trump vowed to end the nation's health care law: "I will fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that makes sense for people in business and not bankrupt the country." Trump also pledged not to raise taxes if elected.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Jan 26, 2011)
High-speed rail for 80% of US; high-speed web for 98% of US

We've begun rebuilding for the 21st century. And tonight, I'm proposing that we redouble those efforts. We'll put more Americans to work repairing crumbling roads and bridges. Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail. Within the next five years, we'll make it possible for businesses to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98% of all Americans. This isn't just about faster Internet or fewer dropped calls. It's about connecting every part of America to the digital age.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology May 18, 2010)
Network clean energy transmission lines like highway network

But reality soon intruded. The NIMBY ("not in my backyard") problem afflicted the smart-grid debate. The regulatory hurdles to modernizing the grid were beyond belief; it turned out that no fewer than 31 different state and local regulators had to sign off on modernization. Obama was appalled. "We went to the moon!" he said. "We can do better than this! Go back and talk to more people."

Barack Obama on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 13, 2010)
2008 HQ phone greeting: "What can you do for us?"

Every caller who dialed Obama's headquarters in 2008 was greeted with a question: "What can you do for us?"

The Internet has made each of us the center of our own political campaign. We ARE the campaign. The days when the candidate and a small group of professionals ran things--and the rest of us chipped in money, showed up at rallies, and voted--are over. Now each of us must conduct our own campaign within our own circle of acquaintances, until the circle spreads to include thousands of voters. Some of us will use the Internet to do so. Others need not feel disqualified by their technophobia. Just do it by old-fashioned word of mouth and snail mail!

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Aug 4, 2009)
My.barackobama.com key to campaign, like Wall St to finance

Just as critical was the shrewdness with which the Obama team captured the grassroots energy that was building around his candidacy. One organizer told reporters that, to understand the Obama campaign, they had to go to my.barackobama.com. Without doing that, he said, covering the campaign was like trying to understand finance without looking at Wall Street. The potential power of the volunteers was evident from the beginning of the campaign. "We had 1,000 grassroots volunteer groups created in the first 24 hours after he announced in 2007."

Barack Obama on Internet: (Free Trade Jun 15, 2008)
Impossible to turn back globalization; we’d be worse off

There are some who believe that we must try to turn back the clock on this new world; that the only chance to maintain our living standards is to build a fortress around America; to stop trading with other countries, shut down immigration, and rely on old industries. I disagree. Not only is it impossible to turn back the tide of globalization, but efforts to do so can make us worse off.

Rather than fear the future, we must embrace it. I have no doubt that America can compete--and succeed--in the 21st century. And I know as well that more than anything else, success will depend not on our government, but on the dynamism, determination, and innovation of the American people.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Principles & Values Apr 1, 2008)
June 2008: YouTube hit, "I Got a Crush on Obama"

Jesse Ventura on Internet: (Technology Apr 1, 2008)
1998 "Geek Squad" pioneered political use of Internet

Except we had an extra advantage called the Internet. My "Geek Squad" transmitted video clips and digital photos of all our rallies onto my Jesse Ventura website as soon as they happened, along with up-to-date information on where we were headed next. This was the first time any politician had really used the Internet; some of the pundits later compared it to JFK's use of television during his presidential race in 1960.

I had people coming up & telling me they hadn't voted in 25 years, but they were turning out for me on Tuesday. I still see the face of this kid who approached me in the little town of Willmar. "Jesse," he said, "you are us."

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Apr 1, 2008)
Feb. 2008: Had 250,000 members on Facebook to Clinton's 3250

The public responded. On Jan. 16, a University of North Dakota graduate started "One Million Strong for Barack," on the Facebook social networking site. The group attracted over 100,000 members in nine days: one of the fastest growth rates ever seen at Facebook. There were more than 250,000 members when Obama officially launched his campaign on Feb. 11. The biggest pro-Clinton group on the site at the time had just 3,251 members

Barack Obama on Internet: (Government Reform Feb 2, 2008)
Shine light on federal contracts, earmarks, & proposed bills

• Secrecy Dominates Government Actions: The Bush administration has ignored public disclosure rules and has invoked a legal tool known as the ‘state secrets’ privilege more than any other previous administration.

• Shine Light on Washington Lobbying: Create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings.
• Create a Public “Contracts and Influence” Database: Disclose how much federal contractors spend on lobbying, and what contracts they are getting.
• Sunlight Before Signing:As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to comment online for five days.
• Shine Light on Earmarks and Pork Barrel Spending: Obama’s Transparency and Integrity in Earmarks Act will shed light on all earmarks by disclosing the name of the legislator who asked for each earmark, along with a written justification.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Feb 2, 2008)
Incentives for next-generation broadband in every community

• Deploy Next-Generation Broadband:Obama believes we can get broadband to every community in America through a combination of reform of the Universal Service Fund, better use of the nation’s wireless spectrum, promotion of next-generation facilities, technologies and applications, and new tax and loan incentives.
• Protect the Openness of the Internet:Obama supports the basic principle that network providers should not be allowed to charge fees to privilege the content or applications of some web sites and Internet applications over others. This principle will ensure that the new competitors, especially small or nonprofit speakers, have the same opportunity as big companies to innovate and reach large audiences.
• Invest in Rural Areas:Obama will invest in rural small businesses and fight to expand high-speed Internet access. He will improve rural schools and attract more doctors to rural areas.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Principles & Values Jan 15, 2008)
Despite attack email, pledges Allegiance & uses Bible

A: First of all, let’s make clear what the facts are. I am a Christian. I have been sworn in with a Bible. I pledge allegiance and lead the Pledge of Allegiance sometimes in the US Senate, when I’m presiding. But you know, in the Internet age, there are going to be lies that are spread all over the place. Fortunately the American people are smarter than folks give them credit for. My job is to tell the truth, to be straight with the American people about my vision for where the country needs to go. If I’m doing that effectively, then I place my trust in the American people that they will sort out the lies from the truth and they will make a good decision.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Government Reform Jan 13, 2008)
Transparent government includes federal agency blogs

Barack Obama on Internet: (Principles & Values Dec 17, 2007)
Attends church with press, to dispel rumors that he’s Muslim

His attendance at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Mason City, Iowa, with the news media in tow, was as much an observation of faith as it was a rejoinder to baseless e-mailed rumors that he is a Muslim and poses a threat to the security of the US. Obama did not address the rumors, but described how he joined Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago two decades ago while working as a community organizer. “I realized that Scripture and the words of God fit into the values I was raised in,” he told the congregation.

Obama regularly attends church, but seldom with reporters watching. He is known to invoke religious references in his speeches and has said he has a “personal relationship” with Jesus Christ. He often has said that religion has a place in public life and that faith and politics are not exclusively the domain of conservatives.

Barack Obama on Internet: (Technology Oct 30, 2007)
Organizes campaign events via MySpace.com and FaceBook.com

Obama drew thousands to a university rally organized online by students using Facebook. Obama hadn’t even met the student organizers until he arrived at the event. By March 1, 2007, just a few weeks after Obama began his campaign, his website My.BarackObama.com attracted 3,306 grassroots volunteer groups, 4,416 personal fundraisin pages, 6,706 blogs, and 38,799 people with individual profiles building networks to support Obama.

This new age of decentralized politics takes much of the power out of the hands of political consultants and into the grasp of individuals.

Mike Bloomberg on Internet: (Education May 2, 2007)
Strengthened cell-phone ban in city schools

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Dec 12, 2006)
Innovations make better parent-child connections at distance

Barack Obama on Internet: (Government Reform Oct 17, 2006)
Sponsored bill to disclose earmarks on Internet

Pro: This is logical, cost-efficient, and sensible.
A future president should be committed to transparency in government spending.

Con: he’s spoiling the fun for everyone.
“One man’s pork is another man’s beef.” Without Congressional earmarks, where would we be? In a strange land where members of Congress could not rely on earmarked appropriations to do favors for friends and entrench themselves in office.

Pro: This is patriotic.
Section 3 of S.2590 excludes classified information from the Act’s purview, so there is no danger that the Coburn-Obama Act will gore and sacred bulls.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Jobs Oct 11, 2006)
Passed 2 planks of 7-plank platform, “New Jobs for New York”

1. Create “technology bonds” to fund interest-free loans to improve Internet access.
2. A “Broadband Expansion Grant Initiative” to provide grants & loan guarantees to fund networks in “under-served rural areas.”
3. Fund research on broadband technology in rural areas.
4. Tax credits for small businesses that created jobs in smaller communities.
5. Federal funding for “entrepreneurs who have good ideas but cannot afford lawyers and consultants to help them.“
6. Funding for the Commerce Department’s Cooperative Extension Service to allow it to subsidize non-agricultural technologies.
7. Create ”Regional Skills Alliances“ to provide training to technology workers.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Oct 11, 2006)
Balance Internet freedom of speech against defamation

Q: I wonder if you think this new Internet media is necessarily an entirely good thing?

A: Every time technology makes an advance, we are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are always competing values. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gate-keeping function. What does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation, or to respond to what someone says? I’m a big pro-balance person.

Q: Sounds like you favor regulation.

A: I don’t know enough to know what to be in favor of, because I think it’s one of those new issues we’ve got to address. We’ve got to see whether our existing laws protect people’s right of privacy & protect them against defamation. So I think we have to tread carefully.

Amy Klobuchar on Internet: (Technology Jan 18, 2006)
Supports the V-Chip & Internet filters

Jennifer Granholm on Internet: (Free Trade Oct 1, 2005)
Replace CAFTA outsourcing with "No Worker Left Behind"

"NAFTA and CAFTA [Central America Free Trade Agreement] have given us the Shafta!" I shouted, and the crowd of workers roared in response, as if ready to tear the heads off of those who had made a profit by outsourcing jobs. I waited for them to settle down and for my own angry heart to slow.

"You've heard of 'No Child Left Behind'?" I asked. "Well, how about No WORKER Left Behind?!"

Deval Patrick on Internet: (Technology Sep 15, 2005)
Supports state-wide WiFi

Barack Obama on Internet: (Education Oct 21, 2004)
Sex education needed to help children discuss molestation

OBAMA: Actually, that wasn’t what I had in mind. We have an existing law that mandates sex education in the schools and we want to make sure that it’s medically accurate and age appropriate. I have a 3 year old daughter and a six year old daughter and one of the things I talk about with my wife is the possibility of someone touching them inappropriately. And that’s why [sex education] is in the law. So they can exercise some kind of protection against abuse. As for filters, I have voted for them. In the school setting, there was information schoolchildren could not access such as information about breast cancer, which is why there was a broad opposition.

Mike Bloomberg on Internet: (Education Aug 27, 2001)
No computers in early grade school

Are we using technology as an excuse not to teach how to think and how to work with others? Is the money spent on hardware discouraging the best teachers and limiting the curriculum?

I vote to take the computers out of the classroom in the early grades. We should focus on teaching the basic skills of reading, writing, arithmetic, logic, concentration, cooperation, personal dress, social interaction, and hard work.

Bill Nelson on Internet: (Homeland Security Jan 11, 2001)
Let all military overseas vote via Internet

Florida law requires that ballots be postmarked. But military ballots-mailed free, sometimes from isolated regions-often aren’t. Adding to the problem, a different state rule permitted unmarked ballots, and different counties interpreted the rules in different ways.

Nelson said he believes Internet voting could help solve the postmark and other problems. To date, there have been only limited Internet voting trials in primaries and general elections. Some of those involved in pilot projects for the 2000 elections say Internet voting can be done successfully on a larger scale.

Jesse Ventura on Internet: (Education Dec 10, 2000)
Lifelong learning; college & training for work & life

Mike Gravel on Internet: (Technology Nov 18, 2000)
Put entire government-citizen interface online

[Incumbents] assess what the Internet offers for the delivery of government information. Much greater benefits however lie in moving the processing of the interface between citizens and government onto the Internet. My recent online driver’s license renewal with the Virginia DMV was unexpectedly convenient and efficient. With little attention or effort, filing of income taxes online is on the rise. Clearly intra-governmental operations are increasingly going online. It makes sense that the entire government-citizen interface and interaction should begin to be vectored toward Internet facilitation, digital divide aside, which will shortly be marginalized.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Oct 8, 2000)
Against charging for e-mail

Clinton said she wouldn’t support such legislation, but - ever careful - said she was basing her answer on what the moderator had said. ”Well, based on your description, I wouldn’t vote for that bill,“ Clinton said. ”It sounds burdensome and not justifiable to me.“

The only problem is that the proposed bill, ”602p,“ does not exist. The hoax has circulated widely over the Internet since April 1999, despite continuing attempts to knock it down.

Hillary Clinton on Internet: (Technology Oct 8, 2000)
Details of “Bill 602P” hoax

The hoax has persisted despite warnings on some House members’ Web sites and despite the fact that ‘602p’ is not a valid designation for a congressional bill, which normally bears the preface of ”H.R.“ in the House and ”S“ in the Senate. Nor is there any member of Congress named Schnell.

Jesse Ventura on Internet: (Technology Sep 25, 2000)
Competitive telecomm services to bridge Digital Divide

Based on what is going on in our world today it is absolutely imperative that--

No one, No matter where they live,

Donald Trump on Internet: (Gun Control Jul 2, 2000)
For assault weapon ban, waiting period, & background check

Jesse Ventura on Internet: (Technology Jul 2, 2000)
Leave Internet sales tax to states

I understand the concern that many governors expressed, that stores are losing important sales tax revenue to Internet sales. But I suspect that a tax on Internet purchases would put a severe damper on an industry that’s still getting its feet wet.

Jesse Ventura on Internet: (Technology Feb 10, 1998)
Government may facilitate the Internet, but not control it

A: If government is involved with the Internet at all, it should facilitate but not control it. It’s OK for government to help wire the State for Internet use. The more people that get connected, the better. It’s not OK for government to try to control the content of what goes over the wires. In schools and libraries where children can access the Internet, use filtering programs to limit access to adult content. At home, parents are responsible for their children’s use of the computer...not the government, and not Internet service providers operating under government-imposed mandates. Except for helping more people get on line, government should have as little to do with the Internet as possible.

As Governor, I will veto any new proposed tax.on the Internet. The Internet is a good thing. Let it grow with some government help and with no government interference.