This is mentioned a lot in this great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc The thing is, politicians

This is mentioned a lot in this great talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc The thing is, politicians are able to reasonably regulate almost anything with zero knowledge. The example given is you can reasonably ban the use of mobile phones inside cars without causing cars to become less useful. "Make me an internet that doesn't run BitTorrent". Well, that's not possible. But, it should be, right? Politicians don't understand general purpose computers and general purpose networks (the Internet) are so flexible they can do anything and trying to limit a particular activity does more harm than good.