Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by kulahan on Friday September 14, 2018 @10:21AM
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I'm so tired of the narrative that these highly-educated people vote on matters that they have no understanding of.
They know exactly what they're voting for, and say whatever is necessary to convince everyone that they're working to protect their constituents.
At least in the US, the vast majority of our politicians have graduated from prestigious law schools and passed the notoriously difficult BAR exam. Unless politicians on the other side of the pond are somehow primarily composed of MUCH dumber people, they're probably similarly intelligent.
They know what they're voting for, and they pretend to be totally ignorant to the "scary new world" of tech so they get a free pass on voting in dumb shit laws like this.
They know exactly what they're voting for, and say whatever is necessary to convince everyone that they're working to protect their constituents.
At least in the US, the vast majority of our politicians have graduated from prestigious law schools and passed the notoriously difficult BAR exam. Unless politicians on the other side of the pond are somehow primarily composed of MUCH dumber people, they're probably similarly intelligent.
They know what they're voting for, and they pretend to be totally ignorant to the "scary new world" of tech so they get a free pass on voting in dumb shit laws like this.