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You just highlighted how the narrative really coopt smart people into not seeing the externalities.

Companies will drag this forward anyway. Apple into their proprietary tent, everyone else in every direction they can. It's a very legitimate role of government to try to put some controls on this mess, and the ideas behind those controls is a better next generation system.

THAT'S why I hammer the point he is being a useful idiot.

He is doing their work and trying to force regulations that are good for that terrible end state. He's working so that government help it, not put some controls, which we already have today btw

You can't put controls around grey goo. You can put controls around clearly defined access methods and data shapes.

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