There ought to be a requirement that lawmakers be able to demonstrate skills in precalculus. You could probably explain most of it to a smart ten year old and have them see the problem.
Even if a politician isn't knowledgable they have staff (look up the staff sizes of some powerful US senators) who can get experts on the phone.
The problem is that what the populace wants is not a parallel incentive with what the politicians and their paymasters want. Banning e2ee, the disneyfication of the internet, it's all old power games with a digital twist, can't let ordinary people have force amplifiers like technology because they might actually carve some power away from them.
There is no actual problem. Politicians see problems where they don’t exist.
The average human is ignorant of almost everything. So why then do we select a tiny number of people to make laws concerning everything?
A set of people are presented with evidence and become knowledgeable of the matter in hand.
The current system has politicans not even reading the bills they are voting on, let alone any attempt to understand them.
I’d like legislation by sortition, but only if the laws can actually be made simple enough for normal people to follow them. If that can’t be done, it’s very easy to pull wool over people’s eyes in either direction, getting them to pass bad laws they don’t understand and to refuse to pass good laws they don’t understand.
Also just tell your doctor not to worry it is protected by NFTs. /s
If you did nothing wrong to "the people", you have nothing to fear.
The problem is, that when talking about advance technology plus appealing to emotions ("think of the children!"), average joe is pretty stupid too, and half of population is even stupider than that.
You'll realize most of it isn't stupidity, it's intentional.
If any state requires encryption is only done in a way that allows the state to pierce encryption, that means there is a state that can pierce the encryption. If your agencies can pierce it, agencies of other governments can do it to you, personally, Mr. President. They can find your successor’s skeletons in the closet, Mrs. Prime Minister, and blackmail him or her.
And state intelligence appears to have already been used for enrichment of private corporation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Concerns
Leading to a recommendation that all residents of EU member states use encryption for all communications: https://web.archive.org/web/20131226152235if_/http://www.eur...