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*Updated: Mr. Guillot AKA yankprintster (4225) responded and is interested in answering some questions. Ask him your questions below in the comments*
B.J. Guillot is one of three candidates currently seeking to represent Washington's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Guillot is also a reader of SoylentNews. In a recent interview with CoinTelegraph about his enthusiastic support of cryptocurrency, Mr. Guillot was asked "When did you first hear about Bitcoin, and when did you get into it?" He explains that he got turned on to Bitcoin while reading a certain news for nerds site, and then mentions:
Since I have the floor, let me just state for the record, the new Slashdot web design and user experience is really poor. I've since moved on to SoylentNews.org for my daily science and tech news.
Perhaps Mr. Guillot would be kind enough to answer a few questions about his positions on topics of particular concern to the SN community. I invite him to answer directly in the comments below, or if he would prefer, I will collect and forward the highest-modded comments to Mr. Guillot, and then submit a new story with his responses.
According to his campaign website, Mr. Guillot holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, and has software development experience.
The Crypto Crimson reports that while many politicians are "quick to jump on the bitcoin bandwagon" following the U.S. Federal Election Commission's recent opinon declaring that political committes may accept contributions in the form of Bitcoin, unlike these other politicians, Mr. Guillot is an active miner who "currently achiev[es] a hashrate of five Terahash per Second - certainly the fastest bitcoin mining politician".
The top item to appear in the "Issues" section of Mr. Guillot's campaign website is "NSA Spying". Mr. Guillot's stated positon on this issue is: "The Federal Government needs to immediately stop its spying and metadata collection of its citizen's phone calls and emails. It's also time to discontinue the Patriot Act. No more extensions!".
On his campaign website, Mr. Guillot also states his positions on: "Internet Freedom", "Patent Reform", "Bitcoin", "National Debt", "FairTax", "Military", "Second Amendment", "Energy", and "Education".
(Score: 1) by BlackHole on Monday July 07 2014, @10:39PM
1. What is your position on the NSA's activities abroad? Specifically, if elected, would you support legislation to limit the NSA's surveillance of the citizens and government officials of other countries, including those of America's allies? To be as concrete as possible, in your opinion, what should be required to authorize such surveillance, and, if authorized, what should be the scope of the surveillance.
2. Given the grave impact recent disclosures will likely have on American business interests (e.g., pictures of U.S. government employees intercepting Cisco hardware for the purpose of implanting surveillance equipment/software), would you support legislation to end these practices?
3. Would you support legislation to reform the FISA court, and if so, in what way do you think it should be reformed?
4. What is your position regarding letters that include a gag order (e.g., National Security Letters (NSLs) or equivalent)? When, if ever, should these be used? What do you think of the disappearance of Lavabit, Groklaw, etc.?
5. Would you support a clemency agreement for Edward Snowden?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @03:01AM
And does Mr. Guillot support changing the US national motto to "live free or die"?