> convince everyone that this is beeblebrox and therefore the previous rules don’t apply. This reminds me of how services like Realpage have been described as

> convince everyone that this is beeblebrox and therefore the previous rules don’t apply. This reminds me of how services like Realpage have been described as "algorithmic price-fixing." There's something traditionally illegal (but profitable), and people try to get away with it by slapping on "but with a computer" as some kind of twist that's supposed to make it OK. Sometimes there's a POSIWID [0] aspect to it, where the excuse is "no human explicitly designed the system to do X from the ground up"... which is a distraction from "we kept shopping around and tweaking until it started to do X and then we decided to make that a core part of our business." That might be a defense against mens rea, but once someone points out that you created a crime-machine by accident, you still gotta fix it or turn it off. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...