[Hansappreciator]

Regulation is the result of politics, and politics is the result (in democracies) of the inputs of every person in society. Dismissing regulation, or in Thiel's formulation, conflating regulators with the antichrist is therefore anti-democratic and anti-people. The anti-regulation side of SV, which comes from the libertarian / Randian utopia, is one of its least appealing and most ignorant aspects.

[Animats]

Regulation is usually the result of some industry way overdoing bad stuff.

[mac-attack]

Libertarianism is selfishness inoculated from the human condition