meddle

As usual, the government is trying to meddle with companies.

It makes sense for it be that way, as allowing States to meddle with copyright would create chaos and barriers to commerce.

Someone has to meddle to keep the system working, if its not the government, it would some rich guys in a smokey back room doing it.

It involves high autonomy and few non-technical people meddle in your work or hold strong opinions of how you "should" be doing the work.

They don't know what they are asking for, meddle in the details adding in things they think they need, and don't really know what to pay but often think lower=better.

In particular I respect his decision to not second guess or meddle with the judgement calls of the executives in charge of craiglist.

There's plenty of airline and financial software people don't want to meddle with too much because the people who remember the business rules behind it are retired or dead.

How naive of Brin to suggest this, and some might easily suggest that the best thing politicians can do is spednd their time sticking it to each other, that way they meddle less and avoid doing any real damage.

There's the obvious security/privacy point, but I think on a technical basis it would also be useful: the internet is full of pesky middleboxes which meddle with content, and this breaks things.