content: I agree.  Their opinions don't seem shillish.  People could make a strong argument that the best way to help the web is too not get the government involved.  When you look at the history of industry regulation, almost every industry that the government "regulates." Ends up controlling how they are regulated.  It's called "regulatory capture," and it happens quite often, and by quite often I mean almost every time when we try to regulate an industry.