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Originally Posted by Elfwreck

As long as "the technologists" are writing the code, they'll be the ones shaping the future of the internet. We have politicians who don't know the difference between a document and the program that opens it, trying to mandate how people can use both. We have even more politicians who think that computers have "photos" and "movies" and "songs" and "ebooks" and "emails," rather than really long collections of ones and zeros which are being processed through various filter programs to display them so human perceptions can make sense of them.

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Reminded me of an article I read a few days ago:

That Congress was blithely preparing to regulate an industry it did not understand was on full display in December’s House mark-up hearings, at which proponents of SOPA professed ignorance of the workings of the Domain Name System, a fundamental piece of Internet architecture that SOPA proposed radically to alter. North Carolina Democrat Mel Watt, an early sponsor of the bill, made the memorable confession “I’m not a nerd.”