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It is obviously that we cannot do that because of the global competition. Regulation of technology to reduce risk to society will just make competing part of s
by hkpack 4y ago
It is obviously that we cannot do that because of the global competition.
Regulation of technology to reduce risk to society will just make competing part of society you have no influence on to dominate. And you lose on both fronts - technology domination, and ability to control it in the future.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoRegulating Apple specifically, or the role of smartphones in society generally, imperils national security? Sorry, but I'm not buying it. The relevant business behavior and technology to squash is the technology that intersects with the lives of common people in an intimate way, not military R&D. I'm talking about regulating the way online banking and ecommerce work, not the etching of silicon or production of rocket motors. The cited threat is phones getting pwnd by scammers who drain your grandpas bank account. If that threat is indeed so severe that digital freedoms for everybody need to be curtailed, it would be better to ban online banking entirely than to put the entire population under the paternalistic control of a handful of corporations. You'll have to dig deep into nth order effects to justify such regulation imperiling national defense, essentially tea leaf reading.