Control as Liability (vitalik.ca)

> Voluntarily giving up control, and voluntarily taking steps to deprive oneself of the ability to do mischief, does not come naturally to many people

Nor to the author, himself, clearly.

This is quite a bizarre article coming from someone who exerts virtually complete control over the rules in Ethereum.

Control as Liability .... unless you are the government!

I agree with Vitalik on this. It’s the reason comma.ai / hotz can practically give away lane assist capability for existing cars. No control / open source. Will help in other spaces suffocated by regulations on users data such as healthcare. Make a distributed / patient controlled system for hosting patient data that you don’t control, and maybe it doesn’t have to worry about hippa. Build a distributed white pages for people that want more targeted advertising and maybe you don’t have to worry about gpdr.