Wesley

He's right you know...

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/08/darryl-issa-is-.html

Honestly I don't expect lawmakers at the Congressional level to know very much about Internet technologies (although some of them actually do). Things have changed too much and too fast. But it's unfortunate and dangerous for consumers that so many of them really have no idea about how these things work.

It's particularly dangerous at this time when new frequencies are being auctioned and philosophical business issues like "net neutrality" are being debated. And all this is on top of the all too easy to stir up hysterics about pornography, violence, and gambling - red herrings all.

I'm not sure what the solutions should be to get good legal frameworks established, but I know this. As a strategic matter it is generally more cost effective for business to loby the government then actually invest in research, superior technologies and new business models. That's a recipe for broad-band backwater, useless lock-in technologies designed by marketers instead of engineers, less choice for consumers, and a less competitive United States.

People are stupid.