I'm also 47, a computer user since 1979, by no means an expert and no legal training. But I could see the problem when it was first brought up. Must have something to do with being 47.
In a way, I think it does. We're old enough to have grown up with typewriters, both manual and electric, and had to master them in order to make it through school. We were around for the dawn of the computer age, and progressed from room-sized mainframes to notebooks, and green monochrome screens to virtual reality graphics.
We also remember Vietnam and Watergate, and how the Press (now: "The Media") took unrestrained glee in the downfall of a President whose policies they detested. The world has changed - but the Media have not. Except that today, there is a growing alternative Media, through talk radio and the Internet, and our friend from Atlanta applied his own life experience in a way that called attention to our own power to shape public events and perceptions.