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If demonstrable expertise is being offered and ignored, then that's a completely different story...

frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
If we're defining expertise in such a way that it can only be gained through work experience at the corporations you'll later be in charge of regulating then that's a problem with what we consider expertise to be.
- zero_one_one 9y ago
  I think that education can only result from prior experiences, rather than projections. If the experience influencing education has come from those who have been 'through the ringer' at the companies pushing the technology forward, education will always be one step behind corporate influence. Catch-22 unfortunately. The paradigm I think has shifted (for better or worse) from taking the letter from academia to taking it from those who have advanced these technologies within public perception (with or without fuelling from media influence)
  - frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
    I would rather have my public agencies run by someone who maybe has no direct experience with the domain but has shown skill in public decision-making and an ability to learn new fields than run only by people who have worked in that domain. Which is to say if it's a catch-22 it's one that's completely self-imposed (or is being used as a scapegoat for regulatory capture.)
maxxxxx 9y ago
I think that's happening right now
croon 9y ago
The article opens with one city-official with relevant credentials who was discarded, but also says: > Sixty-four city and state officials were nominated for the panel, but the agency initially chose only two: Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, and Kelleigh Cole from the Utah Governor’s Office, according to documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity through a Freedom of Information Act request. Pai later appointed another city official, Andy Huckaba, a member of the Lenexa, Kansas, city council. 3 (initially 2) out of 30 panel positions are people that aren't currently working for the telecom industry.

If we're defining expertise in such a way that it can only be gained through work experience at the corporations you'll later be in charge of regulating then that's a problem with what we consider expertise to be.

zero_one_one 9y ago
I think that education can only result from prior experiences, rather than projections. If the experience influencing education has come from those who have been 'through the ringer' at the companies pushing the technology forward, education will always be one step behind corporate influence. Catch-22 unfortunately. The paradigm I think has shifted (for better or worse) from taking the letter from academia to taking it from those who have advanced these technologies within public perception (with or without fuelling from media influence)
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
  I would rather have my public agencies run by someone who maybe has no direct experience with the domain but has shown skill in public decision-making and an ability to learn new fields than run only by people who have worked in that domain. Which is to say if it's a catch-22 it's one that's completely self-imposed (or is being used as a scapegoat for regulatory capture.)

maxxxxx 9y ago

I think that's happening right now

croon 9y ago

The article opens with one city-official with relevant credentials who was discarded, but also says: > Sixty-four city and state officials were nominated for the panel, but the agency initially chose only two: Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, and Kelleigh Cole from the Utah Governor’s Office, according to documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity through a Freedom of Information Act request. Pai later appointed another city official, Andy Huckaba, a member of the Lenexa, Kansas, city council. 3 (initially 2) out of 30 panel positions are people that aren't currently working for the telecom industry.