[dbotsfordtat]

Originally Posted by manimsoblack

Create a regulatory body independent of the companies and the government. Get a few college professors from various fields and make it there job to serve as middlemen (and women) between the companies and government. They'd examine what the companies are capable of and set appropriate and reasonable time lines for government mandate/laws but they're "semi-anonymous" so that the companies can't get to them and offer them gobs of cash or kidnap their families, etc. Basically their job would be to make sure both parties are doing as much as they can while not undermining the other.

...or something...

Not bad.