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Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a tech-savvy "Internet generation". Most of those kids who know how to use Facebook inside and out would be just as clueless as today's senators are, if they had to deal with anything remotely technical.

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That's very true. But at least they won't be in the situation of having their wife look stuff up for them[1]. I don't think it's a far stretch to expect that today's facebook-ites have an intuitive idea of what a 'link' is.

[1] http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/13/john_mccain_tec...

I would think that there are certain ideological verities that differ between the generations. A group that is intimately familiar with a new ability to create millions of perfect digital copies of almost any intellectual property will have a somewhat different perspective as to what constitutes legitimate copyright protections in an age where such extensive abilities exist.

Most of our current Congresspeople know little to nothing about it, they just know they need a website for their campaign, that the design firm charges a lot of money, and that the Google can tell them the side effects of their drugs.

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