Thanks for the link. I read that and largely agree with it's position. Some of it I disagree with as I think many aspects of digital technology pose a genuine hazard to young people.

But my remark is really about how, in almost 200 comments we've gotten distracted and almost entirely avoided dealing with the arguments on their merits.

While made of smart and sincere people, in-toto governments are idiots, and dishonest idiots at that. We can surely take that for granted. But they remain idiots because we, as citizens, fail to correct them. Have all the "experts", advisors, consultants, lobbyists, think-tanks, specialists and witch doctors not understood the first thing about the complex dynamics of strategic limitation of information hazards, scale, freedoms, or enforceability, to come up with such a blunt and naive bill? How can we "hackers" help them see better? Or do we also not understand, and the only solution that will prevail is "Shut it all down!"