I think the idea here is that Kickstarter investors are NOT aware and are easily hoodwinked. Why, even this project appears to have been a lie- it's just that t

I think the idea here is that Kickstarter investors are NOT aware and are easily hoodwinked. Why, even this project appears to have been a lie- it's just that the founders were lying to themselves, too. The assumption being that the Kick starter investors ought to essentially be protected a little against their own gullability. This of course all serves as a nice allegory of how rules requiring accreditation for some types of investment were born.