But they are right to resist calls from emerging nations for weightier net regulations, and to lobby against plans from Iran and others to create "national internets" isolated from external traffic.
Rolls-Royce now earns more from tasks such as managing clients' procurement strategies and maintaining the aerospace engines it sells than it does from making them.Cynics say box-tickers have benefited lavishly from the weighty stacks of regulation that have been pumped out since the crisis.
But in their ruling the three judges wrote that the state's "proffered interest in smooth election administration" was not sufficiently weighty to justify the voting regulation.
And of course the impact on UK research cannot – and should not – be isolated from other weighty matters in the referendum debate such as sovereignty, democratic accountability, regulation, and differing perceptions of the long-term goals of the EU.
France's labour regulations have famously been symbolised by the labour code, a weighty 3,800-page 3,800-page
These are important areas, but there is a long list of weightier issues – capital flight, tax regimes, climate change and improved global business regulation, to name but a few.
These are the regulations that apply to referral fees, which deal with such weighty matters as whether a birthday present from a title agent or a mortgage insurance salesperson, to a lender, constitutes a prohibited referral fee.
Unlike economists, who dispassionately count job losses the same as job gains when trying to tally the overall impacts of regulation in their empirical research, politicians at least implicitly treat job losses as weightier than job gains, even if the jobs pay the same.
Then, last week, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff reported on his Weighty Matters blog that a Canadian mother was fined $10 under Manitoba's Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations for failing to include a grain product in her child's home-packed lunch of "leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk".
What you are really saying in that instance is that racism is no big deal, or such a small deal that Environmental Protection Agency regulations are a weightier concern.
