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“Now luckily there are ways to address these problems. Sometimes they're already on the books in other forms outside of regulation. So if we could relax the rules, it wouldn't mean the end of all law. We would still have contract law and property law and torts …”

“So in a world where technology can move in the same way that capital did before it, to wherever you find the most open, hospitable environment, you're going to expect to see more of that in coming years.”

“We've embraced this idea of this general freedom to experiment, ah, and even sometimes fail, which is really makes America unique in the world in this regard. We've led the way with the internet for this reason, in my opinion.”

“The whole point of my book and the idea of permissionless innovation more generally is that the benefit of the doubt should be with the idea of innovation allowed as our policy default. And until such a time as the other crowd can make a compelling case, That …”

“If we spend all of our time living in fear of hypothetical worst-case scenarios and basing public policy upon them, then best-case scenarios can never come about.”

“Europe took a very heavy-handed, top-down approach to the data directives and privacy rules that made it almost impossible for innovators to really take hold there or really get any investment. And what, as a result, it's hard today to even name a major innova…”

“It happened because in the United States, we had a clear bipartisan vision for the internet Mostly driven by the Clinton administration, who first commercialized the internet for open development, and then secondly came out with a framework for global electron…”

“So what technology innovators need to understand is that their job is going to be a lot easier if they don't have to deal with an agency with an F at the beginning of it. So whether it's the Food and Drug Administration, or the Federal Communications Commissio…”

“If someone in the States tried to do something like the Europeans are doing with right to be forgotten, we could beat that back with the First Amendment in the US. We could say, no way it doesn't jive with our First Amendment.”

“For the most part, policymakers and regulators, they just want to be heard. They want to have their concerns heard. They want to know that you're doing something to address these things in some fashion.”

“That's clearly been the case with 23 and me, which of course our Food and Drug Administration famously went after the innovators there for their genetic testing service. But over in the UK, they were welcomed with open arms by the government who said, come on …”

“Oh yeah, there were bills here in California that would have banned Gmail because it was unthinkable that we would target ads based on what was in your emails.”

“Of course, Google Glass has subsided as a technology now, but that technology is still with us in other ways, and we're going to witness, I think, a lot of concern about the issues raised by a world of immersive technologies, including sort of psychological co…”

“The First Amendment became If you will, a deregulatory sledgehammer that you could take agencies to court for almost anything they did with the internet, and you could win. You could beat regulatory proposals.”