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A whole neighborhood run by Google? That's even more dystonian than many Black Mirror episodes.

• donatj 8y ago
  I’m genuinely not sure if you intended sarcasm? It’s not really anything new. Over the last couple hundred years there’s a long history of towns and neighborhoods run by companies. See: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village
  • microcolonel 8y ago
    In the U.S, at least you can argue that the company has some limited responsibility to uphold rights; in a company town, it is generally the case that the company town can not prevent you from expressing yourself by removing you from the place with trespassing statute [0]. As a former Torontonian, I have no faith that the council or the public will prevent abuse by Google until it gets really out of hand. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
  • navigatesol 8y ago
    >Over the last couple hundred years there’s a long history of towns and neighborhoods run by companies. And how do the vast majority of those end up? Utopian?
• drilldrive 8y ago
  I know that Weed, California was a company town historically. There has been some recent conflict regarding who owns the water in the town, as the company sold the water to the town for a dollar a year for a contract of 50 years that expired in 2016.
• sonnyblarney 8y ago
  "Dystonian". California-styled "dystopia" "Dude ... cough cough that's like, totally dystonian man ..."