"Andrew McLaughlin, former Obama administration deputy chief technology officer and now head of content organization at Medium, proposed in a tweet Tuesday night: “Trump’s win endangers GOP Senators. America’s tech community should rally to defeat Richard Burr, for his idiotic war on Internet security.” (Burr tweeted support for Trump on Wednesday.)
McLaughlin followed up in an email Wednesday to MC that it’s too early to say how serious such an effort would be but added there is “deep, deep anger in tech” about Burr’s pro-law enforcement proposal with Sen. Dianne Feinstein. “I get the sense that tech folks are starting to sense that there’s a real opportunity to help defeat Burr, who has gone to war with the industries building America’s future,” McLaughlin said. Feinstein isn’t up for reelection until 2018."
- Date Published:05/05/2016
- Original Publication:Politico