[zapnap]

I'm worried about the same things that you are worried about. They are legitimate concerns, and they need to be addressed. No one is saying they are unimportant. This legislation is a vehicle for addressing them. This is also why I personally believe that the extra protections found in the Senate version of the bill actually make it more relevant than the loosely-worded HR2930.

No one is saying that regulation isn't important. And I didn't blindly throw my support into this without doing my research. I don't want to see individuals get into things they don't understand, but I do want people (who are properly educated and who understand the risks) to be able to make up their own minds, support their neighbors, and help bring new ideas to life.

[chernevik]

Okay, maybe you don't mean to, but this sounds a little talky-pointy to me. Who's against allowing people to make up their own minds and bring new ideas to life? Most of the people I know who talk that way live on K Street.

If you want to avoid sounding like a lobbyist, address the heart of what someone is saying. Who denied you think regs are important?

The point was that effective regulation is very likely _impossible_ at a cost consistent with the scale available at these funding levels. How do we regulate a bunch of these things, from a variety of sources, inside the budgets available to them? I don't see it.