Technology

Yeah it's pretty much a guarantee that when you hear an oligarch saying regulations cause stagnation or stifle innovation, they're referring to protections that are meant to keep people from being exploited.

They will then claim that U.S. values are "baked in" to their bullshit and that's why you don't need regulations... These are also the people that are destroying the U.S. and have openly stated they are trying to destroy democracy

For example, Kratsios, the man who argues against regulations for technology, was tasked with using cutting edge technology to prevent COVID from spreading as well as for keeping COVID misinformation from being shared on social media.

We know that he failed to do both.

Best case scenario, he has never known what the fuck he was doing, millions died under his watch, and this is a very clear example of why nobody should be listening to him.

Worst case scenario, his team of tech bros who were supposed to be keeping disinformation from spreading, either created (or intentionally allowed it to be spread) the online misinformation that plagued the U.S. regarding masks, because he felt the lives at risk were less important than the facial recognition data he was collecting, and the Clearview big government contracts he was attempting to sell to multiple agencies on behalf of Peter Thiel.

Best case or worst case scenario, the bottom line is that nobody should be listening to these people! They're either incompetent morons or competent villains, or most likely a little bit of both. They are very dangerous, and they should not hold any government authority. The death rattle of democracy in the U.S. should be a warning to other countries about the danger of allowing private businesses to gradually infiltrate and eventually consume the government.

The entire purpose of a government even existing is to protect society from men exactly like this.