Apparently some people don't realize that it was a bunch of (now) old guys that developed the technology that the internet was built upon. Then again, maybe a group of Google new hires can find it in their hearts to sit down and explain this internet stuff to Vint Cerf. After all, he's almost 70 and clearly wouldn't understand it.
Instead of defining things in terms of age, would you be opposed to describing a generational divide? I've argued before in other settings that selecting most of our leaders from two generations back gives too much inertia to the status quo. The current representatives are fighting the reality in which the current generation exists.
No, it's not. It should be reasonable to have an expectation that the people writing laws have a working understanding of the subjects they're writing them on. Very, very few 70-year-olds have a sufficient understanding of the Internet. It's not ageist to be frustrated by this situation.
