How do federal laws regarding the internet related to complex concepts like cybersecurity get passed? How do lawmakers with little working knowledge of the web get the time to discern all the details in all the bills for those laws?

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How do federal laws regarding the internet related to complex concepts like cybersecurity get passed? How do lawmakers with little working knowledge of the web get the time to discern all the details in all the bills for those laws?

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The short answer is: They don’t.

Those bills are often written by lobbyists suggesting wording, or other special interest groups, or (and this is a big one) the Heritage Foundation writing the proposed law and then handing it off to some clueless politician.

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