I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
AL FRANKENService dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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