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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
Our lives are chock full of lawyer babble and legaleze that nobody reads. If we tried, that's all we would have time to do. We are forced to assume rational behavior and hope for the best. The alternative is a unibomber shack on top of a mountain somewhere.
Google says you agreed that they can read your mail and capture your search history, even though none of us has ever signed an agreement -- and yet the courts have confirmed such outrageous overreach, the same as the deed restrictions we all signed that can be interpreted to say that you can't plant a little white cross in your own yard. We trust Google and The Villages to not to use their powers for evil -- but in the end, people with power always do. On the day that Google uses your email and search history to create a social credit score, like they do in China, are you going to nod along and tell us that's what we all agreed to, so shut up and do as Big Brother tells you? If so, please don't move to my neighborhood.
My advice is to simply use those little white crosses to find a neighborhood where people expect reasonable behavior -- or where they're militant lawn nazi's, if that's what you prefer,
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Has nothing to do with what I prefer. Has everything to do with the contract you agreed to and signed. No one was forced to accept or "assume rational behavior". And if someone chooses not to read the "lawyer babble" and legalese, that is on them. Like a drunk driver telling the cop that is arresting him for dui, "You can't arrest me. How was I supposed to know you were going to pull me over tonight. Heck nobody has time to read all the driving laws".
I am not in favor of "lawn nazis. But, if one would get called out for breaking the rule, I would hope that they understand that it was their own fault and they were unlucky enough to be the one who got caught and with good grace, correct the situation.
And I'm still not sure how you figure the unibomber is the alternative to any of this.