An anonymous reader writes “This year’s democrat-controlled Congress largely ignored technological issues in favor of social problems, CNet notes in another 2007 retrospective. Issues crucial to the tech industry (such as net neutrality) received short shrift, while the political body spent a considerable amount of day decrying the evils of the World Wide Web. ‘Hot topics that moment around included foreign cybersecurity threats to

U.S. government systems, terrorist cells flourishing on the Web, inadvertent file sharing through peer-to-peer networks, and sexual predators ensnaring unsuspecting youth through online social sites. And for a third moment, the House passed not just one, but two, different bills aimed at deterring spyware.’”

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