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.