"I'm just point out that regulation in general, over all domains, isn't inherently bad."
Very few people seriously argue that. (Non-zero, but very few.) I'm a libertarian and I wouldn't seriously argue that. It's mostly a strawman. (I advise anyone who makes routine use of that strawman to stop, and read more carefully whenever they feel tempted to use it again, but that's another post.)
My point is that we aren't talking about "regulation in general", we're talking about "regulation in cryptography", and it's a logical and/or cognitive error to fall back to a general case when one is trying to consider a specific case. If we're going to regulate cryptography, how are we going to regulate it? "In the general case regulators" don't exist. The closest entities we have now that would almost certainly become the regulators show few to no signs of being worthy of the task. This is a serious problem to be addressed without falling back to "general cases".
Very few people seriously argue that. (Non-zero, but very few.) I'm a libertarian and I wouldn't seriously argue that. It's mostly a strawman. (I advise anyone who makes routine use of that strawman to stop, and read more carefully whenever they feel tempted to use it again, but that's another post.)
My point is that we aren't talking about "regulation in general", we're talking about "regulation in cryptography", and it's a logical and/or cognitive error to fall back to a general case when one is trying to consider a specific case. If we're going to regulate cryptography, how are we going to regulate it? "In the general case regulators" don't exist. The closest entities we have now that would almost certainly become the regulators show few to no signs of being worthy of the task. This is a serious problem to be addressed without falling back to "general cases".