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They don't need to understand it, but they need to know that they don't understand it and that they need to listen to people who do.
by ScottBurson 15y ago
They don't need to understand it, but they need to know that they don't understand it and that they need to listen to people who do.
- nextparadigms 15y agoExactly. They keep refusing to listen to the experts in the Internet infrastructure, and even though they say they don't believe them, I think they actually know they might be right, but they just don't care.
- Fluxx 15y agoRight. I think more than the fact that they didn't know how the internet works was the arrogance that they didn't need to know how it worked or listen to/trust people who say they know how it works to make a decision.
- megablast 15y agoSo who do they listen to, the experts from the RIAA/MPAA, or the experts from Google? Do you guys actually think about this stuff? If you do not know what you are making judgements on (you are the government), how do you find the right experts? You can't. You trust advisers, but everybody has an agenda, including the Universities Professors. This is not a solved problem, and anyone who thinks it is easy is wrong.
- narcissus 15y agoI don't know about you, but if I were writing a law about the internet, I'd probably talk to Google over the RIAA. The problem here is that they're writing a law about the internet to solve a problem somewhere else. So, instead of asking the people that are being affected, they're asking the people who they're trying to help. But yeah, to answer your question? If it's a law about the internet, you ask Google, just as if it were a law about the Billboard Top 100, you ask the RIAA. For expert advice, at least.
- megablast 15y agoWhy would you choose Google? Because you are an expert in the field. Once again, you don't seem to understand what it is like for a non expert.