# kaal:claim:2834531-028

**Claim.** The post truth diagnosis is self defeating as a basis for regulation: if there is no objective basis on which to act, the conclusion is inertia or reproduction of the status quo, which is precisely the regulatory paralysis the diagnosis purports to describe.

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

**Holds when.**

- if the skeptical post fact account of regulation is accepted

**Source quote.**

> If we live in a post–truth world then we don't have any objective basis on which to act, leading to inertia or the reproduction of the status quo.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law* (2017), B. A Post-Fact Society?, page 24

**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.** post truth paralysis  (family: regulatory-lag)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** post-fact-society, regulatory-paralysis, legitimacy, epistemics-of-regulation

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