Tech policy activists find Bernie Sanders is best bet – while Trump is the worst
Vermont senator gets top marks on issues including censorship, mass surveillance and net neutrality ... with the Republican frontrunner ranked last
The top candidate from the great state of the internet is Bernie Sanders, according to an analysis of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates’ campaign platforms by tech policy activists at the Free Press Action Fund. The worst candidate on policy positions that affect citizens’ digital lives? Donald J Trump.
While nearly all the candidates have been a little light on policy so far, they have all opined on the internet. In October, for example, a video surfaced of Ted Cruz stammering through an answer about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa), a bill deplored by privacy advocates which passed the Senate less than a week later (like the rest of the Republican hopefuls in the Senate, Cruz did not vote on it).
Cruz admitted he hadn’t “studied” the bill – now it turns out he, along with all the other candidates for president, was being graded.
More: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/14/election-2016-tech-policy-net-neutrality-bernie-sanders-donald-trump
