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Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

“If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have much  less driving.