How the Mid-Terms may affect technology law

[Deviant Ollam]

Declan McCullagh has a piece on news.com right now (co-authored by Anne Broache, someone with whom i'm less familiar) summarizing some of the key ways that tech legislation may experience shift in support with the new houses of Congress.

some interesting notes in there. specifically, net neutrality will have a lot of fresh life breathed into it but digital freedoms will likely continue taking a beating. article also mentions how the frequent, reasoned objections of Ed Markey (who often criticizes measures that would restrict freedom or negatively impact privacy) that were so often drowned out in the past will have a better chance of being heard now.

[theprez98]

Re: How the Mid-Terms may affect technology law

Declan McCullagh has a piece on news.com right now (co-authored by Anne Broache, someone with whom i'm less familiar) summarizing some of the key ways that tech legislation may experience shift in support with the new houses of Congress.

some interesting notes in there. specifically, net neutrality will have a lot of fresh life breathed into it but digital freedoms will likely continue taking a beating. article also mentions how the frequent, reasoned objections of Ed Markey (who often criticizes measures that would restrict freedom or negatively impact privacy) that were so often drowned out in the past will have a better chance of being heard now.

Keep in mind that while Democrats now control both houses of Congress and can put up their legislation, it still has to go through the President and neither house has significant enough of a majority to override a veto. So I would argue that this change is much less "dramatic" then the article argues. A President that has rarely (if ever?) used a veto will be much more inclined to use it.

Priorities might be shifted, and what legislation gets proposed will change, but what becomes law will not change all that much.

[astcell]

Re: How the Mid-Terms may affect technology law

His first and only veto thus far was on stem cell research.