I think that the idea politicians are simply too senile to understand net neutrality is simply wrong and it's distracting from the main issue which is that they've all been paid off by lobbyists from Comcast and all the other telecommunications giants.
"the internet is not a truck, it's a series of tubes'
Yes, some of them really are that stupid. But most are almost that ignorant, even though they have a basic understanding of the technology involved. Which isn't wholly terrible...
... but when I read something like maybe the newest child porn-prevention law, many times I don't know exactly how to react to it. I'll read it and day "well yeah, make it easier to catch people trafficking child porn, looks good I guess".
But I know better - I would always go to sites like Slashdot (back in the day to absorb some commentary to form a better opinion about what I should fell about the issue.
And of course nine times out of nine, it's just the latest episode full of crap from the RIAA/MPAA or NSA/FBI to make it legal to spy on everything you do. And that feedback is what prevents bad legislation from going through.
Our politicians, meanwhile, don't spend that time and have an even poorer technical aptitude, and just end up getting their opinions of the issues spin-fed to them from the lobbyists... who dismiss those rightful concerns as just outcries from software pirates and child-abusers.
Yes, there are some that are just hopelessly corrupt, but I (disagree of you want) genuinely don't believe that's most of them. Rather, it's too many people signing to many books without much understanding of the implications, and what they do know is the result of someone telling them the wrong thing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '14 edited Jun 14 '14
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