The US Supreme Court doesn’t understand the internet
The reality is that most people, EVEN technical people, don&#x27;t actually understand the Internet.  The only people I consistently have conversed with who understand the Internet are technology advocates that have a deep background in Internet networking.  Even on HN, most people believe many things about how the Internet works, at the networking layer, at the application layer, and socioculturally, that are not true, and provably not true, but widely believed.  A true headline would be &quot;Hardly anyone who isn&#x27;t at least a double CCIE with ~15 years of experience in web policy understands the Internet.&quot;<p>Most technical people don&#x27;t understand DNS, and it&#x27;s one of the most basic and core technologies to how the Internet works today.  The courts definitely don&#x27;t understand DNS.  The vast majority don&#x27;t understand BGP, and it&#x27;s literally the basis for how Internet networking works.  Many don&#x27;t understand the Web as a tech stack, outside possibly the basics of website design.  Even people who develop web applications don&#x27;t understand the Web as a tech stack.<p>It&#x27;s actually a major concern for me, because the promise that future generations would be &quot;digital natives&quot; with deep technology understanding didn&#x27;t come to fruition.  The knowledge of how all of this infrastructure actually works is dying off, and very few people are interested in learning it, and the entire global economy is now built on the Internet in a myriad of ways.  Reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2347&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;2347&#x2F;</a> except extrapolate from open source software to literally all essential technologies the world runs on.