In an industry leadership dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show, Skype CEO Josh Silverman made a plea to policy makers to be forward-thinking and embrace “disruptive innovations” like his Internet phone business.
The story he told to demonstrate his point about the potential danger of protectionism was about Pennsylvania’s Red Flag Law, which was passed by state legislators around the turn of the century shortly after the invention of the automobile.
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