Avoiding a Precautionary Principle for the Internet

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Avoiding a Precautionary Principle for the Internet

Adam Thierer | Mar 11, 2012

This excerpt originally appeared in Forbes on March 11, 2012.

The problem with such precautionary thinking is that it poses a serious threat to technological progress and human prosperity. Under an information policy regime guided at every turn by a precautionary principle, digital innovation and technological progress would be impossible because fear of the unknown or hypothetical worst-case scenarios would trump all other considerations.

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