From ZDNet Russell Shaw writes “Attention you politics-hating coders, geeks: Ron Paul is NOT a friend of the Internet”:

I think we are seeing just a bit of the reflexive legacy libertarian techie streak here. Just want to code and innovate. government and politics is clunky, bureaucratic, process-driven. I know that many of you feel you don’t live in that political world.

And of those of you who do, Internet traffic patterns document a sentiment toward Rep. Paul far out of proportion to the poll numbers he has been pulling.

I interpret this view of Rep. Paul as a widespread meme that “I hate politics, and it doesn’t have anything to do with my world, but if I have to care, might as well back the Libertarian.”

But let me tell you about Libertarians.

Because they reflexively disdain regulations, they aren’t going to be on the side of legislation restoring fair royalty scales for Internet Webcasters.

Because they reflexively disdain regulations, they aren’t going to be on the side of net neutrality legislation.

And it is not even that Ron Paul knows anything about tech. He’s a self-professed “pen and paper” guy.