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...is beyond mistaken, it is dangerous. This country faces serious privacy and data collection concerns that are not problems in other countries which choose to protect their individual citizens over their corporations.
I'm not advocating that the US should effectively censor the internet, or should completely ban data collection, but there needs to be balance. A president who is likely to veto (or at the very least, be skeptical of) a law that might limit some telecom corporations' rights simply because he doesn't get it? Because its a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, gobbledygook? That's frightening.
PS McCain's "meh, I'm old" argument is weak. My father is 69 years old and trained/worked on the first computer developed by the US Air Force, and went on to IBM thereafter. Hell, my 86 year old grandmother is a downright expert on searching for zany internet videos. The internet's not going anywhere. Educate yourself McCain, you can't make your interns do everything for you.
