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One of the rights we explicitly give the government in the Constitution is to regulate our trade and commerce. From that lens all these regulations make sense,

• dr_dshiv 7y ago
  Check your source. I believe the constitutional power is to regulate interstate commerce. There is a conceptual difference (or there used to be). Traditionally, this power isn't supposed to apply to all aspects of the market -- just those aspects conceptually bounded by trade that is between states.
  • sarbaz 7y ago
    Yes, but you're selling your attention to Facebook across state boundaries (in 49/50 states). But my more serious answer would be that everybody is harmed by inconsistent trade rules between states. It just makes doing business harder. The commerce clause was thought up when considering a much less centralized nation composed of many isolated markets. Today even the much less tightly bound EU has a pretty strong level of trade uniformity, enforced centrally. So I think that everyone benefits from a relaxed view of the commerce clause, and that this isn't a real infringement on our rights.