> People sometimes complain about laws that appear out of the blue. His tweet above is the start of a long slow proces of building a law. It's a clear warning:

> People sometimes complain about laws that appear out of the blue. His tweet above is the start of a long slow proces of building a law. It's a clear warning: get better at self-regulating, or we'll regulate you. You're absolutely right! One reading is that it's a request. Please fix this problem, before we have to regulate you into fixing it. Is it possible that there may be an alternative reading? A cynic might suggest that humoring such a plea is a great way to demonstrate that content problems like this can be solved! Then regulators can require those very useful tools be applied to whatever they please in a much more general way. The odds of whatever Secretary Hancock gets to solve the very real, pressing problem he has so wisely pointed to being completely inapplicable to literally anything else are virtually zero. I can think of a few places where safety and social responsibility means things like never disagreeing with The Party. As technologists, it's on us to think through the consequences of our choices where we can. It's often not plausible - nobody thought TCP/IP would lead to malgorithmic ads! But tools designed to enforce arbitrarily defined social mores?