>You then add any regulations with a clear demonstrated need.

The US has, for 300 years. I'm sure countries within the EU have an even longer history of that.

>you're saying the baseline should be to keep regulations even if they aren't needed.

No, they already proved their needs. The onus is on the new plantiffs to disprove the needs. No one's done that so far.

Zero regulations is an asinine position. The vast bulk of regulations that were added over the past hundred years were in response to demonstrable harms. If someone wants to get rid of an existing regulation, it is up to them to show why it is no longer needed.

> “Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”

> we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation

"we can always add it back in" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976708

That sounds.. obvious?

Regulations should need to justify their existance, they shouldn't just exist by default without a reason.

they don't "exist by default" or without reason