Verizon uses the same boilerplate contract for all its regular customers because it would take too much time (and therefore money) to negotiate and implement millions of individual contracts. But it's conceivable that a small handful of highly-paid executives could effectively set their own terms of service as a perquisite. Perhaps the more privacy-conscious among them have "opted out" of the more nefarious terms and conditions.

I am curious to know how much electricity was wasted on this apparently useless endeavour.

A few years ago I also found I needed to redact text from a document.  I do most of my document processing in LaTeX, and found that the following works nicely.  It replaces (not overprints) all text inside \redact{...} with a black bar, and copes well with wrapping across lines and pages.

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To think that the state somehow operates outside of capitalism is ludicrous. Capitalism has been the pervailing socioeconomic model in the world for the last several centuries, and governments are just as much a part of it as businesses. Even the Soviet Union acknowledged that it was capitalist; Lenin himself was advocating a move towards "state capitalism" as early as 1901, saying it would be a huge step forward for Russia.

If you're going to berate a poster for inventing new definitions for socialism, then you should realize that the one you yourself are using is a novel invention by Lenin. Marx himself used the terms "socialism" and "communism" interchangeably to refer to a democratic, stateless socio-economic system where labour would be voluntary and there would be free access to goods and services. The idea of a central state with a command economy was Lenin's idea, and he redefined "socialism" to refer to it.

Why don't you offer up some evidence or a citation for your rather bizarre claim rather than wrongly assume your opponent hasn't read the source material himself?

Where did Marx advocate central planning?

Whether he was telling workers to unite internationally or separately within their own countries is irrelevant to your error. You claimed that his message (whatever it was) was not intended for workers of larger countries, but the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto prove otherwise.

This form of society is more commonly referred to as "primitive communism" and existed in pre-agrarian societies. In fact, it still exists in a few remaining isolated hunter–gatherer tribes. Any examination of them will put to rest your rather ridiculous notion that they leave their old and weak to die.

Humans lived under "true communism" for hundreds of thousands of years longer than they have lived under capitalism, or feudalism, or any other socio-economic system. We're still around, so it can't be against our nature to live in a more or less egalitarian society of free access. Sure, human nature gives us the capacity to be greedy and corrupt and antisocial, but how we actually act in a given situation is determined more by environmental than genetic factors. The challenge now is not to overcome human nature, but to apply it to forming a worldwide society which combines the uncoerced labour, free access, and democracy of our primitive hunter-gatherer ancestors with the modern-day technological and industrial benefits which capitalism has built up for us.

That's why Marx not only identified the problem but the solution. He famously remarked that "philosophers have interpreted the world in various ways; the point however is to change it." Whatever criticisms can be levelled at Marx, being an armchair philosopher who didn't propose any concrete course of action isn't one of them.