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posted by azrael on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the doesn't-constitute-an-endorsement dept.

*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".

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:15PM (#65921)

    Because it's a stupid idea to jail corporations- you affect lots of employees who may not be responsible for what the corporation did.

    And if you jail a natural person, you also affect a lot of people who may not be responsible for what that person did. This might include

    • the person's children (especially if the person is the only available parent)
    • the employer, if the person is employed
    • the employees, if the person is an employer
    • anyone having a contract with that person which now cannot be fulfilled due to the person being jailed

    Note that this is not an exhaustive list.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @03:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 08 2014, @03:00PM (#65962)
    Let's make it simpler for you to understand.
    a) Jailing one person - X people affected
    b) Jailing a corporation - X * number of employees in corporation affected.

    Why jail an entire corporation when you can get similar or better results by jailing only the ones responsible and thus affect far fewer people?

    Now do you see why it's stupid to do b) when you could and should do a)?