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   "text": "Regulation is never grounded in the full set of facts about a technology; it is always premised on a prior selection of the facts that regulators themselves treat as relevant when deciding what, when, and how to intervene.",
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   "text": "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.",
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