Neither of those examples presents a resounding success story. Restrictions on cryptography proved infeasible, and were abandoned; copyright prohibits duplication of others’ work only when it’s for profit, and is only sporadically effective even at that.
There’s also there monopolies and mergers commission. The government doesn’t foster the development of big and powerful agents that might someday compete with it.
Neither of those examples presents a resounding success story. Restrictions on cryptography proved infeasible, and were abandoned; copyright prohibits duplication of others’ work only when it’s for profit, and is only sporadically effective even at that.
There’s also there monopolies and mergers commission. The government doesn’t foster the development of big and powerful agents that might someday compete with it.