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It fascinates me to no end.

On the one hand many people more or less voluntarily use private companies’ free services and are surprised when they are shut out for arbitrary reasons. On the other, regulation is decried as government overreach.

Then there are the inevitable technologist voices calling for yet another technical solution for an issue created by technology and economic liberalism in the first place.

This is a social and legal issue, not a technical one.



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