There are plenty of experts in our industry willing to help the government pen regulations. I'd gladly volunteer.

Google isn't your friend.

If you're a consumer, they're limiting choice.

If you're a startup or midcap, they're in your way.

I expect startups to out-innovate once the giants get a regulatory buzz cut.

> There are plenty of experts in our industry willing to help the government pen regulations. I'd gladly volunteer.

And there's no way, in general, to differentiate you (who I'm assuming to be a good-intentioned actual-expert) from someone who is either (a) not an expert or (b) not good-intentioned (i.e. a lobbyist) - so this offer is effectively useless, and the more general point of "there are experts that can help" is invalid.

I've been thinking about this problem a lot, because it is one that needs to be solved. But it's more complicated than just saying that "experts from the community can offer to help draft regulations" because the problem of how lawmakers can trust those offering help is very difficult.

...and that's assuming that the lawmakers are operating in good faith and accurately representing their constitutents' interests, which there is scientific research[1] that indicates is not true.

[1] https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/testin...

We have to let Google do whatever they want, lest we strangle innovation. The people we trust to literally run the country, to build, operate, and maintain nuclear weapons and submarines - they can't be trusted with things like files.