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Re:Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Do... by spoiledtechie on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @10:05PM (#11350064)
Its interesting that such a vocal West Coast crowd votes for Obama, when in fact he has been one of the worst presidents in recent history on use of privacy and security.

Im curious to know why people still follow a person with such a horrible record on the constitution, when he studied in great detail.

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Re:Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Do... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @10:43PM (#11350203)
With Obama's recent actions regarding privacy and encryption, I'm terribly glad I didn't go to work for the US Digital Service.
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Re:Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Do... by studentrob on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:09PM (#11350304)
It's not like the President understands that encryption is ungovernable and is pursuing a fruitless path on purpose. He just doesn't get it.

We should be begging smart people to get in the White House and help relate the facts to him. The current CTO Megan Smith is there calling for more people to join. She says the discussion about encryption is "ongoing". She's obviously outnumbered. Tech does not have proper representation in the White House.

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Re:Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Do... by spoiledtechie on Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:07PM (#11370823)
Stop giving the president just another excuse to give him another out.

He has plenty of smart people around him, yet he still insists on government over privacy.

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Re:Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Do... by studentrob on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:50PM (#11383353)
It's not an excuse, he's a lousy guy for not giving tech staff his sincere attention. My point is, nobody has broken through to him yet. It's his fault, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying. We all bear the results of what he says publicly.
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Re:Obama Has Gotten 3,000+ Tweets about Encryption. Let’s Do... by jaredklewis on Thursday March 24, 2016 @11:46AM (#11353733)
No great mystery really: voters choose among the options they have.

There are very few pro-privacy US politicians (such as Rand Paul), and they are most certainly not on the presidential ticket.

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