I don't think FUD is on the table at this stage in the discussion. And I'm not sure why you chose a confrontational stance for your question.
But for an answer, I've done what folks do - spent decades carefully listening to legislators (and judges!) reveal their expertise in the fields I work and interact with.
Ron Wyden aside, authentic technical competency from legislators is so uncommon it stand out. Glaringly. What technical acumen we do get pretty much always rhymes with lobbyists talking points.
I expect my perspective to be boringly familiar here.
And AFAIK, we don't have any other Ron Wydens serving in Congress or coming onboard.
That is, someone with the basic technical understanding to foresee reasonable downstream consequences of the laws they vote on. Not someone with a minimal technical awareness that was crafted to be a lobbyists tool.
I will be genuinely grateful if someone would correct me here.
So? Tons of millennials barely understand technology too. I'd say a politician being one makes the odds they know tech marginally better, but I still interact with people of my generation that barely know what a filesystem is, let alone how to make one, or why it's important.
Well it means came of age at the turn of the millennium. So the whole online culture thing. Presumably we'd have a pretty good idea what's going on, having lived the whole thing.
The joke used to be that Boomers don't understand the internet, even though they invented it.
Based on that experience I guess it should be no surprise that now Millennials don't understand the web even though we were born on web 1.0, grew up on web 2.0, and created web 3.0.
