Incumbent-Driven Regulation
I'm thinking of working on a major internet governance conference for next fall. Please, everyone, talk me out of it. It's an unbelievable amount of work; even the Nethead/Bellhead one-day no-papers no-presentations fest took enormous amounts of non-monetary resources to put together. Why would I ever try that again?
But tonight a wise friend of mine said, Well, I'm with you on the internet regulation front, because all regulation in this area is incumbent-driven and badly-done. This reminded me of a cartoon in this week's New Yorker:
