Techies must educate governments

GOOGLE CEO: TECHIES MUST EDUCATE GOVERNMENT
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
Those in the know about technology must spend more time reaching out to governments and helping them understand the Internet's role in society, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. "The average person in government is not of the age of people who are using all this stuff," Schmidt said at a public symposium here hosted by the National Academies' Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. "There is a generational gap, and it's very, very real." Of particular importance on the policy front are Net neutrality, the idea that network operators should not generally be allowed to prioritize content that travels over their pipes--the "revenge of the Bell companies," as Schmidt put it--and digital copyright law. Online service providers like Google that routinely grapple with complaints about copyrighted content on their properties are adequately protected now under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but any future changes in that area "could significantly change the way the Web works," he said.
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