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Comment by ToucanLoucan

7 months ago

> I feel like the whole time this was being argued and passed, everyone in power just considered the internet to be the major social media sites and never considered that a single person or smaller group will run a site.

Does this shock you? I don't recall a time in memory where a politician discussing technology was at best, cringe and at worst, completely incompetent and factually wrong.

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mulmen  7 months ago

Off the top of my head Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. I’m sure there are others. Millennials are in office now.

  • WarOnPrivacy  7 months ago

    > Off the top of my head Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. I’m sure there are others

    If we exclude politicians whose tech awareness is curated by lobbyists, Ron Wyden may be the entire list.

  • ToucanLoucan  7 months ago

    > Millennials are in office now.

    So? Tons of millennials barely understand technology too. I'd say a politician being one makes the odds they know tech marginally better, but I still interact with people of my generation that barely know what a filesystem is, let alone how to make one, or why it's important.

    • mulmen  7 months ago

      Well it means came of age at the turn of the millennium. So the whole online culture thing. Presumably we'd have a pretty good idea what's going on, having lived the whole thing.

      The joke used to be that Boomers don't understand the internet, even though they invented it.

      Based on that experience I guess it should be no surprise that now Millennials don't understand the web even though we were born on web 1.0, grew up on web 2.0, and created web 3.0.