They don't seem to care about learning any of it, in fact seeing how a lot of those congressmen were against having technical experts comment on the bill, I don't see why they would care about reading anything on how DNS works and why securing it from tempering is important.
This is the important thing. Would it be useful if they read some Wikipedia entries before they started writing legislation (or, perhaps more accurately, accepting legislation written for them by the MPAA)? Yes. Do they have to? No. They just need to accept that they should bring in experts, and have the experts sit and explain everything to them. They can ask questions and find things out. This is actually accepting that you are not knowledgable with everything, and this is OK.
What they have done is said "No, we don't understand this stuff, because we're not socially-inept nerds like you chortle chortle and if we have you sit here, we'll have you say one thing, the guy from the MPAA say the opposite, and then we'll be right where we started and not know who to believe. So why bother?"
This is amazingly unacceptable. What I find particularly galling is the idea that any single opinion has the exact same weight as any other. The other thing that frustrates is that if, for some reason, you don't trust the private sector to tell things to you straight, there are countless government entities that do know how this all works and are theoretically more impartial. Have a guy from the NSA sit down with you and tell you what's up.
But they haven't done any of this. It's quite amazing that they don't even bother to do any of the song and dance just to give the impression of any due process. It's just "voters don't pay for my new kitchen, but these lovely donations do."
