FC: Ralph Nader vs. Reed Hundt debate over technology policy

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Speaking of tech policy, politechnicals might want to take a look at a 
recent debate I organized on Wired News between Ralph Nader and Reed Hundt, 
a Gore advisor and former chairman of the FCC. Thanks to both folks for 
participating:

Nader/Day 1: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39291,00.html
Hundt/Day 2: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39292,00.html
Nader/Day 3: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39293,00.html
Hundt/Day 4: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39294,00.html
Nader/Day 5: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39295,00.html
Hundt/Day 6: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39296,00.html

Excerpt from Nader's Day 5 post:
> These are really only a few of the information society issues confronting 
> citizens today. People can think about these issues, and ask themselves, 
> will Vice President Gore stand up for their interests as citizens, 
> consumers or owners of small businesses, or will he protect powerful 
> corporate interests?

Here's an excerpt from Hundt's Day 6 contribution:
> If you want his clothes to be of a different color or his jokes to be 
> funnier or his comments from a lectern to be either a little lighter or a 
> little more accessible, then -- to be honest -- get over it. Al cannot 
> please all of the people all of the time. But he is who he is: the most 
> qualified, most visionary, most skilled, most caring person who has a 
> reasonable chance to be president of the United States in this election.
>
> To pass on that for any reason and to entrust the presidency instead to 
> someone who has never given any indication of awareness of Mr. Nader's 
> agenda -- much less any sympathy or sensitivity to it -- and who would 
> disappoint in the extreme every one of Mr. Nader's followers, would not be 
> a blunder, but a tragedy.

-Declan




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