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Lets move from the street to 'private spaces'

You attempt to go to your local grocery store. They use 'Google Identity' which they are perfectly allowed to as a private business. You are accused of sending spam by Google (who the hells knows why, they never explain anything) and you are barred access.

Being the staunch libertarian you are, you leap over the public roadway afraid of catching communism if you touch it and go to the grocery store across the road. It turns out they are using 'Amazon Identity' and via an information sharing agreement with Google (private businesses can share information about you, right?), and you're also denied access to that store.

You'll go to another store, right.... Oops, turned out after we got rid of monopoly laws there are only two different stores in your community after consolidation of the industry. Luckily for you there is a toll road that you can take a 30 minute drive to another place that uses a different set of identifiers to let you in.

We busted monopolies and company stores years ago because businesses harassed and murdered people left and right!. Have you forgot the history of the Pinkertons, or are you just blindly ignorant of that part of US history?




And this completely fantastical future pails in comparison to what the government and the police state do today without any repercussions.

This is what police will do today to people who disagree with them

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/08/23/us/marion-county-record-n...

> We busted monopolies and company stores years ago because businesses harassed and murdered people left and right!….

I’m sure I need to be more worried about Google murdering people than some yokels claiming they were doing a “citizens arrest” where the prosecutor covered up video taped evidence…

https://www.wtoc.com/2022/12/28/timeline-former-brunswick-da...

But I guess I should be more worried about Google putting a cookie on my computer…

Not that I would ever personally use Chrome


I like how you associate the police with the broadband part of the government like there all the same group.

Even better, we had your magical word where the police didn't exist in the past... It was not a pleasant place unless you were the strongman. The police state was just as bad back then, or bully state.


So you really think that a future President Desantis with his “War on Woke” wouldn’t love to leverage any power you give him to suppress speech he doesn’t agree with? He’s already doing that with Disney in Florida




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