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Anyone who's used both, how does it compare to Google's internal tooling?

Freedom of speech is the concept, and 1st amendment is an implementation. The maximal possible implementation given the rest of constitution that came before it. So it's not just government in principle, only in practice.

The Right to Freedom from Misinformation.

It's not going to happen. People want to veg out after a hard day of work, most are not going to volunteer even if all video games and social media ended tonight.

> not an expert in game theory, politics, economics, or anything else involving policies affecting 350M+ people

To be fair, neither are most politicians.

This is the thing. WFH at Google is an option now, but the uptake hasn't been as huge as people here might expect.

Calling 911 is one of those times when I really, really don't want to see permission popups. If I'm in a car crash, I ain't going to be lucid enough to make sure the permissions are set properly. I am almost certain there are legal restrictions in this direction.

And what happens when real fraud does occur?

> Possibly to drive between their various houses?

I'm guessing this is the old joke about Eric Schmidt?

To be fair, Google, Facebook, et al chose to have monorepos when they were startups, so it's not necessarily cargo culting to look at what they did. I'd argue part of the success was cultural - with everything in one repo there isn't generally specific folders which are restricted in these large codebases, and that helps with a bunch of things.

A company like Apple probably deals with hundreds of major lawsuits per year. Must be thousands of smaller cases too.

Last time I checked, I'm a human being who is hardwired to understand these social cues. They're essential for having a conversation in any way that isn't just exhausting for me. It's not a lack of trust. My monkey brain just struggles to parse remotely held conversations.

I guarantee you that most people back then would've been hunting, farming, building huts or rearing children. There is no model of the past where this level of isolation was even maintainable. People simply depend on each other to live.

All that changed is that we've outsourced that direct dependence with indirect dependencies, like supermarkets.

Probably more than 2.4 people, which is the average household size in the UK, for example.