No way I'm moving to overregulated/overbureaucratized/overtaxed US. Hong Kong is so much business-friendly.

Anyone surprised that these two are copyright mafia shills? Google "intellectual property is neither property nor intellectual"

Such complaints are en example of what someone aptly called "the cult of novice."

Great, we should give the government more information about ourselves and let them spy on us 24/7.

"Employment" is a socialist nonsensical term, in reality everyone just provides services to each other.

Buy your twisted logic building contractors should be able to dictate house prices to developers.

Freedom is always illegal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... "Freedom is always illegal because the people who want power over you will always say: "Keeping what you earn is against the law, being armed is against the law, determining your own future is against the law""

Why don't we just stop acting like cattle belonging to these or those bureaucrats and decide for ourselves where we want our data to be stored?

First the government monopolizes the market, makes it virtually "illegal" for private companies to do anything related to space. Decades later it reduces the business risk from prohibitive to barely manageable (protracted and expensive licensing and compliance with its requirements, instead of total prohibition as before). Now we are supposed to thank it for occasionally helping those who dare to operate in this hostile environment it created? What a perverse world we live in.

"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Law enforcement and the agencies that build their plate scanners have argued in favor of the legality of such data collection, so it's not like they can suddenly start cracking down on private citizens doing the same." ~~~ Nonsense. Government does not like competition. Try to do something "legal" that it does and see how it will tolerate it. E.g. try "taxing" people.

Why exactly should the taxpayers be compelled to pay for government violence to protect Microsoft's secrets?

"Full-time employment" is socialist nonsense. De facto there are no "employees", we all provide services to each other. Essentially, at some point the "social engineers" as part of their perpetual crusade of redesigning society decided that it is good idea (for them - because it is e.g. easier to quantify and exercise control) to standardize relationships between individual service providers and service consumers. Just look at this nonsense around Uber going on lately: government agents insist that they get to decide how to classify their drivers, as contractors or as "employees." Absurd.

No IDs. Time to stop being numbered slaves of "The State."

Right, keep giving the government more power, the very same entity that enables the [quasi]monopolies like Comcast.