I agree. A prerequisite for serving in Congress should be not still having a VCR with “12:00” flashing on the clock.
Why are we even bothering with the “middleman”?
As it is now, voters are paying these parasites many millions a year (remember in addition to their salaries they have the best healthcare and perks on Earth, I’d be stunned if they ever pay for a meal or any other expense) to pass legislation.
… and corporations are providing congress with barrels full of cash to pass legislation (that was written by the corporations)
Just make Amazon, Tesla, JP Morgan, Vanguard et al our “representatives”, and everybody saves an enormous fortune.
We’re paying for a puppet show that provides nothing to anybody.
Take Tommy tuberville, does anyone who is even slightly intelligent believe he could understand “AI” well enough to actually regulate it?
Petey Potatotown is unfit to regulate a teeball game.
most of what I know about congress is that half-dead turtle they roll out with a wheelchair once in a while so we know he’s maybe alive
“barely capable of email” seems like an understatement
They’ll do what they always do: Let industry write the regulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc.
Rap artists have to clear every last sample or they don’t own the copyright to their work- but when tech oligarchs pirate every ebook ever made and use it to build plagiarism engines, it is not just legal, they will get a bailout if their slop doesn’t turn a profit.
How many people in Congress are older than email?
A slim majority, about 300 out of 535, figuring the date of creation of email at 1971.
For additional context, you know that infamous clip of Katie Couric being utterly baffled about how an email address works before asking her producer “Could you explain what ‘internet’ is?” That aired on January 24, 1994. Which, I can understand, the world wide web was switched on in August of 1991, not 3 years prior, so there wasn’t a lot of demand for internet connectivity among the masses yet. It was about the time for TV personalities to learn about email live on air.
That was 32 years ago, when email was already 23 years old.
