Great little article here about Supreme Court decisions concerning technology and the internet. The article implies that the Supreme Court makes bad law when the justices are not personally tech-savvy. Of course, the other extreme is to trust regulation to those who are not only tech-savvy but who are insiders in the industry. I think the issue points the difficulty of decision-making in a complex world.
Technology law will soon be reshaped by people who don't use email | Trevor Timm | Comment is free | theguardian.com
This article reads like a black comedy. I think the bigger issue here--beyond the fact that our dinosaur supreme court justices can't even fathom a lawful individual using two phones--is the fact that the **Judicial** branch of our government shouldn't be in the business of **legislating** new laws in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThe whole function of the Supreme Court is supposed to be upholding laws and adjudicating major legal disputes as they relate to our constitution. It's current bastardized function is the result at least two generations of weak-handed, slow--moving, spineless legislators who refuse to perform the fundamental duties of the position they were elected to.