04-14-2019, 06:51 AM
A professor of mine from the middle- to late-nineties said all forms of communication are eventually regulated, when we were talking privately about the Internet. He was a huge liberal, but he didn't think regulation of the Internet was desirable; he saw no reason to regulate it since it was basically information sharing. Granted, though, this was when viruses were seen as the only practical threat, and this was before social media really took off and "softer" threats like doxxing were really a thing.