I find this worrisome on free-speech grounds, on privacy grounds, on all the traditional civil libertarian grounds that seem so "uncool" in 2019.
I have no reason to believe he’s at all insincere or opportunistic in his motives. I included him as a clear cut example of someone calling for gov’t regulation, in response to someone asking if any such people existed.
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Do you have an example of someone calling for regulation in way that clearly appears to rent seeking? That's something I have yet to notice myself.
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There’s always going to be a plausible public-spirited rationale. But I’d look askance at any body that contains both regulators and representatives of the largest companies in the industries being regulated.
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