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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by awakeasleep on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:21PM (#18685415)
Didn't regulation create the Internet?

Although if your point is "some regulations are better than others" I definitely agree with you.

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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by Consultant32452 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @03:55AM (#18687696)
Software generally and the internet specifically are relative "wild wests" compared to most industries. Literally anyone can write software or create a website. You don't need any fancy degrees, you don't need a license/certification, and generally speaking you don't really need permission. There's very few things which are "difficult" to do, categories of content which will be difficult to get hosted.

This is slowly getting chipped away though. There's more and more national internet filters, even in relatively free places like UK. There's GDPR, DMCA, SESTA/FOSTA, etc.

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