The first thought I had was that I hope they don't do it because it'll only be used to invade our privacy.

LK

Excellent point.

If you hate Obama because of his policies or politics, I think that you have to concede that a year and a half of Obama is preferable to risking nine and a half years of Biden.

LK

by getting the low hanging fruit.

Anyone who is a serious threat wouldn't be talking about it online. He, she or they would be making preparations and keeping quiet.

LK

If you want to check IDs you are preventing those without IDs from participating, which in the case of voting is a bit more fucking important than playing the lottery.

Don't speak for everyone - it's a great sign you haven't really considered your argument. It was a logical extension of the Google accounts people used. It was expected by many, welcomed by many, and used by many. Your experiences do not speak for everyone else's.

"Almost certainly bad" he says, without a shred of evidence... It will not serve you to sum up all the taxi regulations around the world which Uber is falling foul of as being "almost certainly bad for the industry", as that patently isn't true. You are comparing regulations in well-functioning countries with those in fucked-up places, as if they have the same effect in both. You are not doing your argument any favours with that sort of over-simplistic nonsense.

Notable to you :) I doubt many people read your first sentence and thought "he's talking about Salt Lake City, surely".

Yes, as eBay was not used for ordering taxis. Having a ratings system which tightly focused on provider/consumer ratings was considerably different for this sector.

And that justified the ruining of peoples' lives who simply had left-leaning sympathies? Being a socialist or even a communist doesn't mean one is automatically an enemy of the state.

Surely It's also a balance of how useful something is when used correctly compared to the damage it can do when misused.

But we're not talking about the world, but on a particular society in a specific location. Get a grip.

We get it - you are scared and lashing out like a petulant child at anyone or anything which threatens to shed just a little more light on your insecurities.

I think you'll find it's predominately poor people who are overrepresented in the crime statistics. Non-white people have generally had a harder time in the US than white people, and that continues to this day, which goes a long way to explaining their overrepresentation. Your misses-the-point-entirely-but-is-too-caught-up-in-petty-racism-to-even-realise post shows just how dangerous opinions like yours spread and persist.

Grown-ups are talking. Be quiet.

So you don't understand both the US's implementation of free speech, or what "hate speech" is.