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I'm Caleb Brown.

Tech policy is Innovation Policy, and Innovation Policy means preparing for the as yet unknown advance that could change our lives for the better.

Will Reinhart with the Center for Growth and Opportunity argues that the current conversations about tech policy, however important, aren't the critical regulatory

reforms that will produce real results down the road.

So we're not at all talking about permitting issues. We're not talking about the more mundane problems

that people actually face and starting a business or in trying to create something that's

competitive and innovative. And even more broadly within the conversation

about about content media regulation, we're not at all talking about

competitors to Facebook and to Twitter and to all these sites that seem to have so much power.

So these things to me are really being lost within innovation and tech policy at large, which are the more mundane things that need to be happening.

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