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I don't think they don't understand, but rather they don't care. Obama is at least a decently smart guy. After all these repeated infringements by the governmen

• nickysielicki 11y ago
  Look at the first few pages of this: https://www.eff.org/document/appellate-court-opinion https://www.eff.org/document/appellate-court-opinion See how the court chooses their words to paint a simple technical action such as changing a user agent to be this inherently malicious thing that only an expert hacker would ever do? I believe that is shared by everyone in government. They just do not know what's going on, and they fear it. Because of this, I think Obama lacks the wherewithal to understand how this legislation could possibly hurt technical people that are not malicious. There's a collective fear in government of anyone technical. I think that if Obama had a working understanding of computers, he wouldn't be pushing for this. He'd understand how it could hurt the good guys. Maybe I'm naive though.
  • feybay 11y ago
    It seems a bit improbable that everybody in the government is not wise enough to see what they're doing. I think I fall on the opposite end of spectrum from you, as I tend to think that 99% percent of the politicians holding office at high levels don't actually care about their constituents. I have yet to see any evidence that contradicts my current belief. If Obama doesn't fully understand what he signed, that would be even more frightening than him not caring.
• enupten 11y ago
  Rather, "don't care to understand".