> We can see how that's worked out in other areas of government regulation of technology (though maybe the crowd here is too young to remember the dark ages of

> We can see how that's worked out in other areas of government regulation of technology (though maybe the crowd here is too young to remember the dark ages of landline phone service where there was no innovation [...] I'm pretty sure the crowd here is mostly too young to remember (or know) that once upon a time you were only allowed, by contract, to connect to phone lines those devices that you rented from Ma Bell, or its equivalents outside the U.S.