Slow on the Uptake

If you’ve never heard of John Doolittle, he’s a Republican U.S. representative from the 4th District in Northern California, and a flaming conservative.

Of course, he voted for the DCMA. However, he recently bought and iPod and discovered there are limitations downloading music. Doolittle actually confessed, “I didn’t grasp the issues before us in 1998. We went way overboard. This needs to be corrected.” Of course, he didn’t give rip that libraries potentially are on the hook for lending out music CDs. Even now, the issue for Doolittle is not a renewed sense of the value of freedom of speech and the need for material to be freely available to spur further creative activity. That's amazing.

Given his confession regarding his ignorance regarding the DCMA, I wonder how informed he was before voting for the US PATRIOT ACT and invasion of Iraq?



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