# kaal:claim:3808873-024

**Claim.** Because decentralized technology at its core negates external control, censorship and oversight, regulatory approaches premised on government control undermined the technology's evolution, and without the ability to experiment in a legally protected environment decentralized products could not evolve.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- regulatory regimes that treat government control as indispensable
- early 2020s

**Source quote.**

> Accordingly, the then-proposed approaches largely undermined the decentralized technology evolution. Without the ability to experiment in a legally protected environment, decentralized products and technology could not evolve.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization Neutralizers* (2021), IX. Regulation, page 21

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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**Failure mode.** Missing Protected Experimentation Space  (family: innovation-chilling)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** regulation, experimentation, censorship-resistance, legal-safe-harbor

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-030

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