Top 5 Tech Initiatives for Obama's Second Term

The president is expected to pour more funding into research and development, a move that could lead to increased technological advances in fields such as cybersecurity


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In general, Americans can expect a continuation of Obama's first-term technology policies. Look for more battles over how much control telecommunications companies have over the Internet, and for efforts to shore up cyberdefenses and increase access to broadband.

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  1. 1. tolson 04:03 PM 11/7/12

    Our president was elected to lead. All he had to do with regards to Bin Laden, is give the 'Go'. George W and his administration deserves full credit. which is, kill him. B.O. is THE commander in-cheif, not mine.

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  2. 2. priddseren 04:20 PM 11/7/12

    So government control of the internet, stealing from others to give internet to some parasites who prefer to be welfare recipients, more money to failed and useless energy companies and the additional theft of money for obamacare are all what is being promoted as the top 5 tech initiatives for the incompetent democrats?

    Right, well thank you for ensuring the internet becomes a government controlled monopoly because there is no occurance of government supposedly "protecting" the people or handing out free anything and this not becoming a government controlled nightmare. Ensuring we go no where with alternative energy. After decades of government funding into solar companies and everything else, all we have is nothing for it but bankrupt companies politicians were using to line their own pockets with.
    Promoting the government have yet more databases about everything about everyone. Nothing about Obamacare is useful but to keep it to Tech, we already have stuff electronic so more of it can be for no other purpose than government trying to own everything about your medical information.

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  3. 3. TheSkyCaptain 01:19 PM 11/8/12

    Wow, I am always so surprised as to how small-minded and paranoid so many people are in our North American societies. Honestly, thinking outside of tired conservative viewpoints lets you find all the good as well as the bad in life, let alone politics!

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  4. 4. Bird/tree/dinosaur/etc. geek in reply to tolson 07:04 PM 11/12/12

    Really? Really? You think that G. W. Bash the incompetent war criminal did the President's work for him? Really?

    While the Shrub was scouring Afghanistan, bin Laden was laughing at him from next door. Bush did next to nothing, and Kurt Eichenwald's recent book shows that his administration's incompetence basically let 9-11 happen.

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