A charming piece of the old internet (dolekemp96)

[Ragnaroni]

I was mucking around in a rabbit hole and found this absolute gem, the Bob Dole and Jack Kemp 1996 campaign website!
http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm
It is cool to see its still around. I'll try to find more old websites like this one.

[Epaminondas]

Great find.

Bob Dole is concerned about children accessing unsuitable material when using the Internet. But strict censorship of the Internet is not the answer. Bob Dole believes that parents should take responsibility for the material that their children view, and he wants to encourage technology which allows those decisions to be made within each home.

Throughout his Senate career, Bob Dole has fought to protect the Constitutional liberty of Americans:
- Bob Dole is a supporter of the Pro-CODE bill that limits the federal government's control of encryption and user keys. It permits the export of software that includes encryption if the software is easily available in this country.

- Bob Dole strongly supports the observations made in the recent National Research Council report that widespread use of encryption to promote information security outweighs the difficulties encrypted communications place on law enforcement. Economic espionage from foreign countries and companies is a serious threat, and Bob Dole believes Americans should have the right to guard themselves using encryption.

- Bob Dole supported the Senate hearings on Internet copyright laws. The hearings provided suggestions from information creators, Internet and on-line service providers, librarians and Internet users on developing compromises that balance the rights and needs of all participants.

- Bob Dole fought for provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that encourage parents to take responsibility for the Internet material which their children view.

Genuinely forward-thinking stuff on tech in here.

I have nostalgia for this time of optimism around the internet. He's also very right that mandating backdoors on personal security only guarantees that everyone's info is less safe, not just terrorists/Russian spies/Chinese intel.

If only the GOP party could return to that stance.

[Ragnaroni]

Great find.

Bob Dole is concerned about children accessing unsuitable material when using the Internet. But strict censorship of the Internet is not the answer. Bob Dole believes that parents should take responsibility for the material that their children view, and he wants to encourage technology which allows those decisions to be made within each home.

Throughout his Senate career, Bob Dole has fought to protect the Constitutional liberty of Americans:
- Bob Dole is a supporter of the Pro-CODE bill that limits the federal government's control of encryption and user keys. It permits the export of software that includes encryption if the software is easily available in this country.

- Bob Dole strongly supports the observations made in the recent National Research Council report that widespread use of encryption to promote information security outweighs the difficulties encrypted communications place on law enforcement. Economic espionage from foreign countries and companies is a serious threat, and Bob Dole believes Americans should have the right to guard themselves using encryption.

- Bob Dole supported the Senate hearings on Internet copyright laws. The hearings provided suggestions from information creators, Internet and on-line service providers, librarians and Internet users on developing compromises that balance the rights and needs of all participants.

- Bob Dole fought for provisions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that encourage parents to take responsibility for the Internet material which their children view.

Genuinely forward-thinking stuff on tech in here.

I have nostalgia for this time of optimism around the internet. He's also very right that mandating backdoors on personal security only guarantees that everyone's info is less safe, not just terrorists/Russian spies/Chinese intel.

If only the GOP party could return to that stance.

I agree though I do wonder how much of this is actually Dole, he was in his 70s at this time so I don't know how much he knew about the internet but it would be really nice if this was 100% him.

The GOP taking these stances would be very nice, I don't know if the Democrats have these stances but I sincerely doubt i.

[darklordoftech]

I find the foreign policy page interesting.

http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/foreign.htm

It says,

- “Neither the United Nations, nor any other international organization or foreign country, will set America's foreign policy agenda. Paring down the U.N. bureaucracy and genuine U.N. reform will be a high priority.”

- “Foreign aid will be offered only as a precise targeted instrument of American foreign policy, designed to advance specific U.S. foreign policy goals. It will not be an international welfare program.”

I wonder what happened to the GOP’s skepticism of the UN.

[Independents for George Santos]

I wonder what happened to the GOP’s skepticism of the UN.

It moved to the WEF for some reason. That and the US has basically not cared what the UN thought and has acted unilaterally at least since the Serbia intervention in the 90s, before the Iraq war cranked that into high gear.