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And who will take their place? Lobbyists?
by notadoc 9y ago
And who will take their place? Lobbyists?
- passive 9y agoPruitt has stated he would like to see officials from the industries being regulated taking these positions.
- r00fus 9y agoBetter than lobbyists - just let the corporations we regulate write the laws! (edit: clarity)
- danieltillett 9y agoWhat do you mean by 'let'?
- moomin 9y agoI don't think I've ever seen regulatory capture being advocated before.
- joshmaker 9y ago"A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate" sounds like it
- maxxxxx 9y agoThis sentence scares me. Although it makes total sense. It seems the only people who are supposed to have a say in this administration are from industry. Nobody else matters.
- elihu 9y agoIt sounds like they're making regulatory capture into an explicit goal.
- dismantlethesun 9y agoImagine if computer programming were a regulated profession, and all the regulators were academics from universities who had never actually worked professionally in their lives. Would it feel fair? This is how it feels to people of any particular regulated industry---that they're being reproached by who may have quality credentials, but honestly don't know anything about the byplay common in the industry day-to-day and whose goals clearly diverge from that of professionals.
- maxxxxx 9y agoIf industry people feel that way they should be told that their activities can cause a lot of harmful side effects that also need to be taken into account. There is a lot of history that shows that if business can do whatever they want they'll end up destroying the environment quickly and harm people.
- wfo 9y agoIt is, and they are. There is a wide variety of governmental standards programmers have to follow in a wide variety of industries (healthcare, education, banking, defense/military, etc) and programmers manage not to bribe their way into total control of the government because being a good citizen is too hard. Having regulators with interests that diverge from people in industry is exactly the point; the things they are doing are often dangerous, reckless, and careless. It does not matter if it's "standard industry practice" or part of the "byplay common in the industry day-to-day". In fact it's crucial that regulators ignore this; we didn't particularly care that it was commonplace to put asbestos or lead in products when it started killing people, we just stopped it. I don't care if it's "commonplace in the industry" to hash passwords with MD5 and leave a telnet port on the database server open to the Internet. It should be criminal because of how careless it is with people's personal data and I wish there were more regulators in the IT industry to come down on people who do it.
- slantedview 9y agoBasically, yes. The wolves will guard the henhouse.
- r00fus 9y agoThat's the endgame of crony capitalism, right? Pay-to-play for everything and the payments need to be made to the ruling party's re-election fund. The US is a democracy in name only.