I see what you and shiven mean. I agree those partial deregulations are bad. I say partial because that's not what I usually mean by "deregulation". "Stripping very specific regulations" is just that, just another law being passed, that flips some switch on or off.

When I asked for examples I thought we were talking about total deregulation (I previously thought deregulation was a binary thing - either something is regulated or it isn't at all) but I see it is used in other senses (although it is a bit perplexing to me).

> Some of those scenarios could have been prevented if more facets had been deregulated

Exactly this.