Look at the first few pages of this: https://www.eff.org/document/appellate-court-opinion

See how the court chooses their words to paint a simple technical action such as changing a user agent to be this inherently malicious thing that only an expert hacker would ever do?

I believe that is shared by everyone in government. They just do not know what's going on, and they fear it.

Because of this, I think Obama lacks the wherewithal to understand how this legislation could possibly hurt technical people that are not malicious. There's a collective fear in government of anyone technical.

I think that if Obama had a working understanding of computers, he wouldn't be pushing for this. He'd understand how it could hurt the good guys.

Maybe I'm naive though.