I don't consider myself a platform enthusiast, but I do find myself annoyed at people who call for regulation of tech companies because its trendy. People are

I don't consider myself a platform enthusiast, but I do find myself annoyed at people who call for regulation of tech companies because its trendy. People are outraged Airbnb can ban you without recourse -- tech must be regulated! Not a peep against hotel giants who can do the same thing People are outraged that Amazon wants to build an HQ2 in NYC because it'll displace people and must be stopped! Not a peep that it's home to the headquarters of 52 Fortune 500 companies already and grows by tens of thousands of people a year. People are outraged that Apple paid little in income tax on a huge profit last year and tech must be regulated! Not a peep about Chevron, Delta, or Halliburton. It's just populism. People know and interact brands like Google, Apple, Airbnb, etc so they're easy targets, and as a result we're going to end up with regulation that narrowly targets that high profile offenders without doing anything to solve the broader root cause issues. California's AB5 is a perfect example -- it's basically meant to target Lyft/Uber/etc and exempts many industries for no reason: hair salons, insurance brokers, real estate agencies, photographers, fishermen, and more. Why? Because they want to specifically target the big bad tech companies without fundamentally fixing the problem of ensuring all workers get a living wage.