the more we hear from Yang about his tech policy ideas, the more ridiculous and completely disconnected from the actual tech world he seems. He got a lot of flak a couple months back when he advocated for voting via your mobile device via blockchain which he declared to be “fraud proof.” This was universally mocked by security professionals and cryptocurrency experts, including one who described the proposal as “unbelievably dumb.”
So, his pro-tech campaign had already hit some choppy waters, and they got much, much worse last week when he introduced his official policy for regulating technology firms that is so filled with bad ideas that I initially thought it was a parody. It may be the single worst tech policy proposal of any current or former candidate for President (and, frankly, nearly all of them are pretty bad). It’s as if he took all the terrible ideas that Senator Josh Hawley has been proposing over the last year or so and said “Oh, I can top all of those with worse proposals.”