@mmasnick @riana @danmcd @alecm @normative @mattblaze Though I think there's a subtle cultural difference to the European Nerd Harder fallacy; they don't think tech people can and must do everything, they think bureaucracies and laws can and will do anything.
They get really mad if they don't get what they want out of that process, but then just do it again. Not just tech tho, this is how immigration law has been working recently.