Where's his "Hulk" tie?
The late Sen. Ted Stevens still
holds the record for unintended hilarity when it comes to all things "tubes," (after all, we're still calling it the "tubes") but Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) is
giving him a run for the money.
Federal legislative proposals to help consumers to effectively stop companies from tracking them online without their knowledge might "break the internet," a key Republican senator working on the legislation said in a hearing on the issue on Wednesday....
Toomey said he was worried that the legislative proposals currently being discussed in Congress are a "solution in search of a problem."
"I'm sure no-one on this committee wants to break the internet, or limit many of the popular online services that consumers can access in order to avoid fundamentally altering the current online experience in creating these unintended consequences. I just urge that we all proceed with caution," he said....
As Toomey's statements suggested, the committee is at an impasse over which effective measures can be implemented legally.
"We've got a problem here in trying to get a federal consensus to pass legislation if there's not a baseline level of understanding and acceptance of what we're doing here," Kerry said, responding to Toomey's remarks.
Nice understatement from Sen. Kerry, who is once again attempting to shepherd through key legislation protecting both the Internet and individual privacy for Internet users. So how depressing is it that Toomey is a "key" senator working on privacy legislation? And how does he qualify as a "populist" Tea Party type when he's more concerned about allowing Internet companies to spy on users than he is personal privacy? I know, I know, he's a Republican. Hypocrisy is bred in the bone.