CNet runs a story earlier this week on the Democratic challengers for President, and their respective stances on various tech issues. Sadly, this article was written mainly from the perspective of tech industry groups, and had very little to say from the perspective of tech industry employees or internet users.

For instance, on the concern over the off-shoring of white-collar tech industry jobs:

“One of the concerns I have is what happens in this situation when, in their eagerness to create a policy issue, some of them have engaged in a lot of antitrade rhetoric and antiglobalization rhetoric,” said Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA). “From the association’s perspective, it will be an ongoing concern if it turns into a hard-and-fast policy concern in the general election.”

I just now scoffed. The article then goes on to extol the virtues (as the suits in Sillicon Valley see them) of Sour Joe Lieberman, who is happy to both help ship American programming jobs overseas and to ban the sale of some violent video games. Thank god he’s almost out of the race.

Near the bottom, they get around to a consumer-advocate from EPIC, who mentions that Edwards is better than the (abysmal) average on privacy. As the capper, they call the Cato Institute “nonpartisan”. I’m scoffing again, because Dr. Lessig totally demolished this conceit this week.

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