# kaal:claim:2834531-012

**Claim.** The identification of which facts count as relevant or irrelevant can be distorted by the concerns of entrenched interests that find the new technology commercially threatening.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- where incumbents face competitive displacement by the technology

**Source quote.**

> Identification of relevant or irrelevant facts may also be distorted or otherwise influenced by the concerns of entrenched interests about new (and commercially threatening) technologies.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), III. THE FACTUAL BASIS OF MODERN REGULATION, page 14

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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**Failure mode.** incumbent distortion of fact selection  (family: regulatory-capture-and-incumbent-advantage)

**Topics.** regulatory-failure

**Keywords.** entrenched-interests, agency-capture, fact-selection, regulatory-politics

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