> Members of Congress clearly don’t understand the tech companies they’re supposed to regulate. But neither does anyone else. Siva Vaidhyanathan [1], the autho

> Members of Congress clearly don’t understand the tech companies they’re supposed to regulate. But neither does anyone else. Siva Vaidhyanathan [1], the author of this Wired article, seems to be a fine representative of the humanities half of what C.P. Snow called The Two Cultures [2]. The ability to craft sentences is an admirable skill, one I wish I had, but innumeracy and the inability to grasp causation seems to be a badge of honor among the non-STEM elite. The question is not whether regulators understand tech, it is whether they understand the principles that limit regulating consenting adults. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siva_Vaidhyanathan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siva_Vaidhyanathan [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures