Source: Students For Liberty
by Ilia Zhuzhunashvili
“When people think about deregulation, they usually picture politicians repealing laws, slashing red tape, or opening industries to competition. Rarely do they think of a machine. Yet one of the most important expansions of human freedom did not begin in a parliament or royal court. It began in a workshop. Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press is remembered as a technological revolution. It made books cheaper, accelerated the spread of knowledge, and helped usher in the Reformation and, eventually, the Enlightenment. But there is another way to understand its significance. The printing press may have been history’s greatest act of deregulation, not because governments removed rules, but because technology undermined a monopoly that authority could no longer effectively control.” (11/13/26)
https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/was-the-printing-press-historys-greatest-deregulation/