“Cut the millions of strings of negative regulations to free the giant that is America! [@ElonClipsX] Elon Musk: Irrational regulations are an invisible tax on humanity. “You really can think of the United States and many countries – it's arguably worse in the EU – as being like Gulliver, tied down by a million little strings. Any one given regulation is not that bad, but… )”
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“RT @MarioNawfal: 🇦🇷🇺🇸MILEI: WE'VE CUT 900+ REGULATIONS AND OFFERED TO HELP TRUMP AND ELON DO THE SAME "Today we have already eliminated mo…”
“Calling a halt to the strangulation by overregulation of America [@cb_doge] President Trump signs a regulatory FREEZE, preventing bureaucrats from issuing more regulations. )”
“🔥🔥 [@MarioNawfal] 🇦🇷🇺🇸MILEI: WE'VE CUT 900+ REGULATIONS AND OFFERED TO HELP TRUMP AND ELON DO THE SAME "Today we have already eliminated more than 900 regulations, due to more than three per day. In this line, we have made ourselves available to Trump and my friend Elon to share what we have… )”
“@jasondebolt The biggest factor, in my opinion, is that crazy environmental regulations prevent building fire breaks and clearing brush near houses. That’s what allows massive fires to get going. Once they’re going, you’re just in damage control mode. In this case, damage control also…”
“These fires are easily avoidable, but nonsense regulations in California prevent action being taken, so year after year homes burn down and more people die”
“Deleting nonsense regulations that fail to serve the greater public good will lead to a new age of prosperity”
“🎶 Regulators … Mount up! 🎶”
“Let us know about wasteful government spending and unnecessary regulations!”
“Too many laws & regulations”
“There are so many regulators that it’s like a sports game with more refs than players on the field!”
“Strangulation by Regulation”
“The absurd regulations get worse every year. Unless we push back, everything will become illegal.”
“The world is suffering slow strangulation by overregulation. Every year, the noose tightens a little more. We finally have a mandate to delete the mountain of choking regulations that do not serve the greater good.”
“@AlecStapp So many crazy regulations that aren’t in the public interest”
“@BasedBeffJezos Yup, not AI! This is the level of madness that regulations have become. Forced seal kidnapping!!”
“The regulators made us kidnap seals TWICE! So crazy ...”
“And it gets worse every year! Only hope for stopping the slow strangulation by overregulation of America is to elect @realDonaldTrump. He will empower the Dept of Govt Efficiency to restore common sense regulation, instead of the mindless mountains of meaningless paperwork.”
“Unless Trump wins and we get rid of the mountain of smothering regulations (that have nothing to do with safety!), humanity will never reach Mars. This is existential.”
“@ID_AA_Carmack Best case 2028, but probably 2030. If SpaceX is not smothered by regulations, then the Starship launch rate will far exceed the Falcon launch rate, as Starship fully reusable, while Falcon is only mostly reusable. Starship should be doing >1000 Earth orbit flights per year by…”
“America is being smothered by ever larger mountains of irrational regulations from ever more new agencies that serve no purpose apart from the aggrandizement of bureaucrats. Humanity, and life as we know it, are doomed to extinction without significant regulatory reform. We…”
“America is being smothered by legions of regulators, often inept & politically-driven”
“Shouldn’t the head of an organization responsible for regulating the safety of airplanes & rockets know something about how they work?”
“@BasedBeffJezos It’s a tough call. I’m far from certain about what maximizes the probability of a good outcome for humanity here. For industries that have been around for many decades, there is definitely far too much counterproductive regulation that does not serve the greater good.”
“@pmarca There should be rules and referees for any field. For example, pro sports could choose to have no referees or rules, but they do not, because it would make the games worse. We should have a reasonable set of regulations and regulators for matters affecting public safety, not…”
“America is being slowly strangled to death by an accumulation of millions of regulations. Tens of thousands of new rules are added every year, but very few are ever removed. Eventually, everything becomes illegal.”
“Unless there is significant government reform, laws & regulations will keep getting worse every year until every great endeavor, from high-speed rail between our cities to making life multiplanetary, is effectively illegal. Trump supports a government efficiency commission to…”
“@pmarca Removing the immense number of pointless regulations and shifting investment to the private sector is the key”
“Mario Draghi’s critique is accurate. A thorough review of EU regulations to eliminate unnecessary rules and streamline activity in Europe would revitalize growth and strengthen competitiveness. Things should be default legal, rather than default illegal.”
“@AutismCapital Well, what are our choices here? The country is choked with nonsense regulations and excessive government spending is driving a great misallocation of human resources. Building great projects is practically illegal in America.”
“I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and needless regulation in government that needs to go.”
“This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk…”
“@JTLonsdale Wow, this is a big deal for addressing overreaching regulation!”
“@ylecun Prepare to be regulated! 😂”
“Mad insurance regulation & extremely high litigation costs are the root causes”
“@Rothmus Absolutely. There are so many regulations that building has become practically illegal.”
“@isabelleboemeke There are so many regulations that major new construction is practically illegal in America”
“@RichardHanania True. All things considered, it would be better to legalize, regulate and tax drugs, just as we do with alcohol and cigarettes, both of which are drugs that cause millions of deaths every year worldwide.”
“@ICannot_Enough When unsupervised FSD significantly exceeds human safety levels and is approved by regulators, the numbers will get really crazy!”
“@stclairashley An excessive number of laws and regulations is the natural outcome of an extended period of prosperity. Historically, war would clean the slate of laws and regulations, but this can be done without war. We simply need to acknowledge that this is a problem and actively work to…”
“@EvaFoxU Monthly numbers are not meaningful, as cars are manufactured in batches to minimize complexity. We have to switch many parts between the China, EU and other country regulations, not to mention RHD vs LHD (pointless complexity nightmare).”
“@billmaher Every year that passes comes with more rules. And while all humans die, laws and regulations are immortal. So each passing year, we tie ourselves down with more and more strings, until, like Gulliver, we can no longer move.”
“@WallStreetSilv Regulate podcasts!?”
“@stclairashley I have been pushing for some kind of regulation beyond zero”
“@TeslaSynopsis @Tesla Once FSD is super smooth (not just safe), we will roll out a free month trial for all cars in North America. Then extend to rest of world after we ensure it works well on local roads and regulators approve it in that country.”
“Met with @SenSchumer and many members of Congress about artificial intelligence regulation today. That which affects safety of the public has, over time, become regulated to ensure that companies do not cut corners. AI has great power to do good and evil. Better the former.”
“@mckaywrigley I saw it happening from well before GPT-1, which is why I tried to warn the public for years. The only one on one meeting I ever had with Obama as President I used not to promote Tesla or SpaceX, but to encourage AI regulation.”
“@SenSchumer Good news! AI regulation will be far more important than it may seem today.”
“@micsolana I think we should legalize it. The probability of overdose or a bad batch is greatly reduced if there is actual QA & regulation. Also, crime flourishes when substances are made illegal. Alcohol is very much a “drug” – it’s just a legacy drug from olden times when we had no…”
“@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Tesla will continue to use outside litigators, but it’s important to build a powerful litigation team internally, so that we’re not always on the defensive. We’ll also go after the Wall St short-sellers, certain law firms & (sometimes) corrupt regulators who are the true evil.”
