> It is not far fetched to say a Senator's pilot could drop their airplane into the Delaware.
Aviation has the state imposing licensing requirements, the state certifying which vehicles can take passengers, the state imposing technical requirements like transponders, the state investigating accidents, the state telling pilots when they can take off and land, the state searching passengers' luggage and sending them shuffling through scanners without their shoes, the state establishing no-fly lists, and the state wading into the industry and choosing winners and losers whenever it's geopolically convenient.
If you tell the senate you'd like the tech industry to be regulated no more heavily than the aviation industry we'd be in for a lot more regulation.
> [...] we tend to scale the weight of these systems to the size of the perceived threat - that's why doctors and pilots are more burdened than bankers who are more burdened than cooks
Aviation has the state imposing licensing requirements, the state certifying which vehicles can take passengers, the state imposing technical requirements like transponders, the state investigating accidents, the state telling pilots when they can take off and land, the state searching passengers' luggage and sending them shuffling through scanners without their shoes, the state establishing no-fly lists, and the state wading into the industry and choosing winners and losers whenever it's geopolically convenient.
If you tell the senate you'd like the tech industry to be regulated no more heavily than the aviation industry we'd be in for a lot more regulation.