Legislators sure seem to assume that legislation can fix anything but it’s a dangerously ignorant attitude to have about technology. There is no single governi

Legislators sure seem to assume that legislation can fix anything but it’s a dangerously ignorant attitude to have about technology. There is no single governing body, no single country and usually not even a single access point for Internet data. Even if a country seems to create what sounds like a decent law for that country, there is no way to apply that law to everybody. It’s also particularly ironic when a restriction is proposed for dealing with people that are probably already untouchable anyway. Also, “the Internet” is not just what you can see on a web page, and screwing with traffic invariably damages everything else. (Ever see HTML returned in places where it wasn’t supposed to be there? Thanks, ISPs.) If your law can’t even reach the people it’s supposed to reach and your implementation is shoddy on top of it all, you’ve just caused a problem that you didn’t have before due to paranoia. We should probably think of the Internet like the ocean: it connects everybody, maybe there are areas we can control for added safety, and in the end we all know in International Waters there are some shady things going on that we can’t do anything about. That’s life.