🧩 BND Motif Index · M759
Regulatory capture
An industry is said to write its own rules: regulators staffed from its ranks, and its warnings of danger turned into licences only the giants can afford.
- 5claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Corporatism 🧩 Dead cat
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-21 “Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill is criticized for offering weak safeguards by only allowing the government to block models that risk 50 deaths or $1B in damage.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-21 “Large corporations have the resources to capture government regulatory processes to use against their competitors.”
🎙️ Ruthless - 2026-10-21 “Tech companies will become too powerful to regulate because of their massive lobbying and financial resources.”
🎙️ The David Frum Show - 2026-10-10 “Tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials through a government-run chat room or private Slack channel to gain access to Americans' medical records and influence healthcare policy.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Trump relies on tech executives to answer complex questions regarding the AI industry.”
🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast)
M759 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-21 · what this is · how the index works