I've heard the Internet called the "greatest experiment in chaos ever made" and I think that's part of why the dot com bubble happened. Neither the geezers nor the youngins really understood what it was. It was basically like Crypto. Unexplored frontiers. And, of course, like crypto, people quickly exploited that legal vacuum for nefarious purposes.

But, nowadays, while most of our elected representatives are still technologically illiterate, most of the population is pretty good at it. It doesn't help, however, that those illiterate fucks just do whatever ISPs and tech conglomerates bribe them to do though, otherwise we might have much better regulations.

A person is very smart but people are very stupid.