Technology Regulation Team

Diagnosis: Every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic heroin.

Team mandate: Make use of all tools—legal, social, financial, and architectural—to enable rapid, city-wide bans on addictive and transhuman technologies. Morphine as a surgical aid has meaningfully benefited the human race; morphine as a recreational drug is antisocial. Develop a framework for making granular distinctions. Create a democratic process for making decisions to ban, un-ban, and regulate these technologies. Begin with a full ban—for all children and adults—on smartphones, smartwatches, smart glasses, and non-medical implants.

Every sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic heroin.

Software Families are eating the world.

And this is before we get to screen addiction.

New Athens is pioneering a new, openly hostile approach to hostile technology.

We’re going to regulate tech like tech CEOs do for their own families.

our goal is to help people be better people—not pray on them or replace them with robots

in 2025, smartphones have replaced syringes as the primary delivery system for addictive products.

Like a syringe of fentanal, used in hospitals to reduce the pain of childbirth, phones aren’t inherently evil. but most syringes of fentanal

anti-addiction: no gambling, drugs, games, social media. and

It was common knowledge in tech that many leaders did not let their kids use phones, and many still don’t. they knew the risks and were not interested in experimenting on their own children. that’s why montisorri and waldorf schools so popular in san francisco.

tech people lost the plot. we’re here to restore the human economy and lead a renissance that puts family, health, and american values first—ideals forgotten, if not abandoned, by so many tech leaders.

technology

broadly, hostile to technology that turns people into products

fans of tech that people use as a tool to get things done

can’t say tech is just…bad. or that modernity is inherently evil, or capitalism, or white/black/jewish people. we live in 2025 and getting rid of big pieces is a recipe for economic collapse, genoicide, or both.

on the other hand, can’t be too technical. can’t limit the number of parameters a LLM can use, or rate limite API calls, or bandwidth allowances on different levels of network infastructure. it’s all invisible. technocratic tweaks and nudges are mosquitoes. maddening and bloodsucking—and you can’t see them so makes you paranoid so smacking yourself every time you feel an arm hair move.

instead, solution needs to be something that

• everyone understands exactly what it is
• everyone can tell if someone is breaking the rules (aka: the ban is enforcable)

we keep two lists

blacklist - tech we ban

watchlist - tech we’re formally observing and assessing for a future ban

point is not to go back in time, but to benefit from stability, observe the impact of new tech, and choose deliberately and democratically before adopting.

goals:

• your family safe
• insulated from whiplash of emerging tech that, while potentially useful, is rolled out recklessly

Every election cycle we add or subtract from the list

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