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You’re both right, in that regulation serves the group that most successfully steers it. The notion that more often than not, incumbent corporations are the on
by nrb 8y ago
You’re both right, in that regulation serves the group that most successfully steers it.
The notion that more often than not, incumbent corporations are the ones writing the regulations, is not exactly controversial. Given the recent treatment of net neutrality, I don’t hold out much faith in the open web getting a fair shake right now.
- ddingus 8y agoInsightful. One could extrapolate this Internet struggle being closely related to how meaningful ordinary people are represented in government. In many democracies, and in the US today, big money owns government to the point of anything at all aimed at defending the interests of ordinary people seems radical? And expensive? We may find there is a cost per person, few dollars per, or small percentage of time needed to participate in the system or be stripped down, devalued, tracked and every other thing possible to make money.