Tech Interested Congress Introduces Dirty Dozen Bills
from the regulate-regulate-regulate dept
Well, it certainly appears that the U.S. government has given up on the idea of staying out of the way of the technology world. The Cato Institute (who is known for their own biases) has put out a report detailing a "dirty dozen" bills that Congress has introduced to try to regulate the technology industry. Of course, most people doubt that any of the bills will pass. However, it does show that Congress is taking an increasingly active look at the technology world. The article doesn't detail exactly what's so dirty about these bills (though, I'm sure you can figure it out on some of them). I think that, knowing the Cato Institute, that they consider any bill that touches on a sector to be dirty simply because the government is involved.
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