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And an even better question: Would we need to ask ourselves these questions if these nonsense laws didn't exist?

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  Of course not. If we got rid of all these laws the corporations would simply enforce terms of service on us, containing whatever they want. And then would argue that we freely entered into those terms of our own free will by being born where we were and when we were!
  • ycmbntrthrwaway 10y ago
    > And then would argue that we freely entered into those terms of our own free will by being born where we were and when we were! You just described what the government does.
    • a3n 10y ago
      Except the government's "TOS" are constrained by the Constitution. No such constraint on corporate TOS, particularly in the thought experiment where all laws are gone.
  • snappyTertle 10y ago
    How would they enforce these evil TOS? They don't have the power to do so.
    • usrusr 10y ago
      If we got rid of all laws that occasionally inconvenience corporations, they would certainly do have the power. You think of Microsoft's former ability to push nonstandard browser features, I think of the East India Company's former ability to subjugate entire societies.