A lot of Big Government overreach – is trying to cram giant sectors of the private marketplace into tiny government regulatory boxes.

A lot of this idiocy is aggressive attempts by government bureaucrats to control things they have zero authority or business controlling.

A lot of this idiocy is government falling victim to reality.  The private marketplace moves and grows far too fast for sclerotic government to possibly keep up.

Of course the first reason – is an attempt to offset and minimize the second.  The more control government exerts over the private sector – the less able the private sector is to grow up and away from government.

Nowhere has government sclerosis in the face of private sector expansion been better demonstrated than the economic explosion that has been the World Wide Web. (more…)