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As a minister it only matters that she is clever enough to take expert advice and run with that. She's there to represent us, it's unfair to ask her to have an

As a minister it only matters that she is clever enough to take expert advice and run with that. She's there to represent us, it's unfair to ask her to have an in depth knowledge of any portfolio that she could possibly be given. Having said that MPs, like the general population, seem to undervalue expert advice and value 'gut feeling'. This is especially true if their gut senses media controversy or 'giving the opposition a stick with which to beat them at the next election'. While it would be nice to see a tech savvy person in such a position they may well not understand the social implications of policy (such as most people don't know how to search in the internet for a filter let alone understand what a filter is) and that would be equally painful to watch.

SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
> As a minister it only matters that she is clever enough to take expert advice and run with that. She's there to represent us, And the problem is, in matters of technology and privacy, they usually take (industry) expert advice and run with that, instead of representing us.
89a 14y ago
> it's unfair to ask her to have an in depth knowledge Double clicking install.exe is now considered "in depth knowledge"
- slig 14y ago
  Where do you find the proper "install.exe" to use? How do you know it's the one you want? How do you set it up? How do you know it's not a crapware/malware/whatever? How do you know it's up and running? How do you prevent your children from disabling it? ...
mercurial 14y ago
> As a minister it only matters that she is clever enough to take expert advice and run with that. Helen Goodman: But I don’t know how to download parental controls. I can send an email, I can click onto Windows but the minute you talk about downloading software, my brain goes bzzzz. The problem is not that she does not have in-depth knowledge. The problem is that (assuming she is not trolling the vendor) she appears to have no knowledge at all. What is she going to do when two experts give her two opposing advices, roll a dice? Besides, if even a talk about "downloading software" makes her "brain go bzzz", I'm not confident she'd be able to tackle any sort of issue involving words with more than three syllables.

SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago

> As a minister it only matters that she is clever enough to take expert advice and run with that. She's there to represent us, And the problem is, in matters of technology and privacy, they usually take (industry) expert advice and run with that, instead of representing us.

89a 14y ago

> it's unfair to ask her to have an in depth knowledge Double clicking install.exe is now considered "in depth knowledge"

slig 14y ago
Where do you find the proper "install.exe" to use? How do you know it's the one you want? How do you set it up? How do you know it's not a crapware/malware/whatever? How do you know it's up and running? How do you prevent your children from disabling it? ...

mercurial 14y ago

> As a minister it only matters that she is clever enough to take expert advice and run with that. Helen Goodman: But I don’t know how to download parental controls. I can send an email, I can click onto Windows but the minute you talk about downloading software, my brain goes bzzzz. The problem is not that she does not have in-depth knowledge. The problem is that (assuming she is not trolling the vendor) she appears to have no knowledge at all. What is she going to do when two experts give her two opposing advices, roll a dice? Besides, if even a talk about "downloading software" makes her "brain go bzzz", I'm not confident she'd be able to tackle any sort of issue involving words with more than three syllables.