LadyCailin

The data can still be sold to other municipalities. That’s kind of the problem here, handling this as anything other than a privacy violation, because anything else allows them to just lease private land to install them, then sell the data to whoever wants it. But the US has been anti privacy for a while now.

> You'd be taxing something you want citizens to have: wealth.

Disagree with the premise. I want people with less than $50m to have more wealth, and people with more than $50m to have less wealth.

I think that’s the underlying criticism. If the enterprise is risky, speculative, or just straight up bullshit, then selling the shovels is the smartest move.

A modest proposal, really.

The Nazis pushed for anti smoking policies.

Just have the agent rederive the revert, based on the facts of whatever made the change inappropriate.

You may not always be that rich, and having to liquidate your only house to pay the taxes is and should be an unpopular opinion.

Tracking for thee but not for me

Is it fraud for me to spawn a bunch of bots to listen to YOUR music? In fact, this has happened before, and people who are not involved at all get punished for the fraud that they didn’t commit. So it’s a quite tricky problem, and I agree that it just isn’t that straightforward.

Do you think the people in the 1700s would have approved of having police follow everyone around at all times in public spaces, taking notes? I think it’s easy to imagine how they would feel in principle, even if they couldn’t imagine the specific technology.

The same way we hold dog owners and parents accountable, but I guess that doesn’t directly service capitalism, so is fine to regulate.

Can you just not use Reddit at all anymore without the app?

Haha, as if the constitution matters anymore.

With the current political climate, that might be tantamount to destruction of evidence or contempt, and be the worst of all options. The problem isn’t any particular technical thing, it’s that the US government has become authoritarian and fascist, there is no legal “gotcha” that will ultimately work here.

Kind of hard to feel sorry for the richest country in the world when they refuse to spend enough money to take care of their people enough to even meet basic national security standards.