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Scale is also an issue. So many things are either owned by a megacorp or run via a centralised platform. Getting banned by a store pales in comparison to being banned by Uber, Google, Visa, etc.


Just as most websites today use captchas run by one or two companies, we may see a scenario unfold where most brick and mortar businesses use a facial recognition blacklisting system run by one or two companies. Get labelled as trouble by the system and you'll be banned by every store in town.


That’s a great point. For that matter, imagine that being maintained by Verisign or the like. Get a ding on your social credit report, and voila, you can’t walk into a grocery store anymore.


:facepalm: I mean Experian. It’s too late to edit it now, but if a future person reads this, I was thinking of credit bureaus managing these lists.


This was already a problem with the email spam blacklists, DNSBL.


See Las Vegas Casio's who have been doing that for awhile


This is not allowed in my state thank god




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