posts tagged "SOPA"

Stupid is as stupid does

Rep. Watt was particularly keen to display his own ignorance. He regularly admitted that he wasn’t very knowledgeable on technology — which should have been a reason to recuse himself or to at least ask for more info from experts. Instead, he just insisted that all of the technical experts were simply wrong. Based on what? Nothing. How does someone like Watt get elected when he appears to want to regulate the internet based on pure faith and against what every single expert has said? It’s downright scary. ”

from TechDirt

These ancient relics in congress…

…need to get it through their thick, neolithic fucking skulls that they have no idea how the internet works. This article is just a sprinkling of how tech-retarded 99% of government officials are: read it here from the good folks at Tech Dirt