Most people do not comprehend just how technologically illiterate they are. They are tech stupid, and that includes the geezers in government.

Especially the geezers in government.

When I used to teach art to children, I would bring my tablet to play music. The kids always assumed I was as tech-dense as their parents and helpfully guide me to how to use my tablet. They had no idea that I made my own computer games before I was 10, made my own AI-based malware software as a university student as I went part-time to college for programming courses, or that I could take my computer apart and know what I was doing under the hood. I took the stereo apart when I was a kid, found out what was wrong with it, and fixed it as I put it back together.

I never corrected my students, however. I wanted to know how tech-savvy my 7-14 year olds were so that I had a baseline.

Many were as clever as I was at their age, and these were kids drawn to the arts.

If I was teaching a STEM-based class, I am sure those kids would have been much, much savvier. I have been to Lego Mindstorm competitions and those young minds would leave most of the LinkedIn “thought leader” frauds in the dust.

When a government isn’t tech literate (and no one in the current federal regimes knows squat), they make folksy laws that even a kid can bypass.

Some people understand that you can bypass the rigs through VPN. This is a very shallow loophole, but there are many others. All the law will do is train youth to live double lives that there already clueless parents won’t know about.

Software is Swiss cheese: there are so many backdoors that trying to regulate it is an exercise in stupidity.

It cannot be overstated how tech-stupid the Canadian federal government is. They know about this AI-thing, but they don’t understand the finer details, and why they always seem to gravitate to giving lavish grants to fraudsters.

But they are pandering to the simpleton middle-class folk who vaguely understand the whole Internet thing could be dangerous and they have to waddle around like a frightened chicken hoping the farmer would save them from the wolf howling miles away. They never question what intention the farmer has toward them and their hatchlings.

However, these little laws will spark an underground social network just as Prohibition brought “independent brewers” and underground speakeasies.

But governments always see the need to meddle where they don’t belong to make themselves seem important as they stop no one who is determined to do what they want.