You’re correct, and thanks for pointing it out. I shouldn’t ask for that proof in particular. I do however ask for some argument, other than “The hackers that built the internet and keep it running are much smarter and work much faster than the legislators.”
The reason I’m not satisfied by this argument is that these smart hackers have bosses and legal departments and the core Internet routers and DNS servers have legal owners (who are not hackers) and are installed in non-secret and very expensive server farms (mostly in the US). Even if all the techies in the system were to organize together they could not overthrow or replace the rest of these organizations.
I do not accept the argument that they’ll come up with something because they’re just that smart. If it were true, I would expect many more of the long-standing problems of the Internet and the Web to have been solved. I would expect previous disruptive laws like the DMCA to be more effectively circumvented.
You’re correct, and thanks for pointing it out. I shouldn’t ask for that proof in particular. I do however ask for some argument, other than “The hackers that built the internet and keep it running are much smarter and work much faster than the legislators.”
The reason I’m not satisfied by this argument is that these smart hackers have bosses and legal departments and the core Internet routers and DNS servers have legal owners (who are not hackers) and are installed in non-secret and very expensive server farms (mostly in the US). Even if all the techies in the system were to organize together they could not overthrow or replace the rest of these organizations.
I do not accept the argument that they’ll come up with something because they’re just that smart. If it were true, I would expect many more of the long-standing problems of the Internet and the Web to have been solved. I would expect previous disruptive laws like the DMCA to be more effectively circumvented.