Scoring Obama and McCain on "wired" issues

Over at Wired Magazine, senior editor Nicholas Thompson tells Boing Boing:

I've just published a scorecard for McCain and Obama, describing and grading the two men's positions on Wired business issues. The brief summary is that McCain scores higher on H1B visas, they have equally good (or mediocre) records on spectrum policy, and Obama has a superior record on Net Neutrality, broadband deployment, and green technology. The hope now is that readers will use the widgets on the site to submit their own grades and also to provide descriptions of other Wired issues, like surveillance or patents, where the candidates differ.

Obama vs. McCain: The Wired Scorecard (WIRED / Epicenter blog)

• [Wardish]

  I’m continually amazed at the H1B visa issue.

  Took me 5 min’s to come up with a reasonable solution to the issues.

  Original Problem: Some companies need skilled employee’s that are not available in the US.

  Created problems: Many companies like hiring folks from elsewhere because even with associated costs of the visa and transportation it’s still a huge cost savings over paying US wages for the same work.

  Solution: Have a relatively unlimited pool of available H1B visa’s. With the provision that anyone hired must be paid 110% of the prevailing US wage for the work.

  That way if they really need skills not available they can get them but there is a real financial incentive to use local talent.

  Ward

• [sleze]

  You can’t discuss “wired” issues with Obama without mentioning Biden. He is literally in bed with the RIAA.

• [Ashaman]

  How about ability to use email?

• [Andrew W]

  Literally, eh? Must be a big, big bed.