Senator Feinstein Trying To Sneak ISP Copyright Filtering Into Broadband Stimulus Bill
10th February 2009
The problem with such huge piles of excrement legislation is that (a) nobody has (or can) read the whole thing, and (b) the Bad Guys take advantage of the complexity of the process to sneak in little goodies that advance their own (or their owners’) agenda. The health care provisions that Megan at Fox News was all over this morning (and that Rush Limbaugh has been all over for the past two days) are one such instance: Nobody knows how it got into the bill, or who put it there, or what it would mean in practice. This is another such instance, fortunately with some fairly obvious fingerprints on it.