You think so many things will be accessible for people without driving that the roads will fall into disuse? Unfortunately I don't think they're planning to go that far.
kbal
You say that as if it makes the idea somehow less insane. I hope the billionaire clique pushing this shit has miscalculated and there are still enough people not so far gone that they're ever going to let the technofascists scan their faces in exchange for the privilege of spending money and being advertised at.
A strange choice given that you don't even need to have a face to enjoy music.
Our prevailing system of electronic payments is an absolutely ridiculous situation that gives Visa and Mastercard more power than anyone should have over the whole world of retail commerce. It's been like this since fucking 1993, or whenever it became commonplace to buy stuff using credit cards on the Internet. It's nice that gamers have now noticed that it affects them but it remains unclear how their efforts are going to help improve things other than by making more people aware of the problem.
Either you're with us or you're with the criminal ransomware sex trafficking child-molesting terrorists who, as a result of too much Internet freedom, are lurking around every corner.
The Birth of a Nation II: The Rebirthing
Not the most eloquent "fuck you" missive they could've written. Too wordy.
Further Left than even Obama himself!? Is that even possible?
Imagine watching actual TV. Millions of people do it.
Bear in mind that the people coming up with this stuff are not completely stupid. Completely corrupt and ignorant perhaps, but not so inept that if they write legislation that strongly encourages practically everyone to use a VPN to avoid the bullshit it isn't a good possibility that their aim (or the aim of those manipulating them) is to generate excuses to eventually make easy-to-use commercial VPN services illegal. Obviously many of us could get around such a ban with ease, but the more difficult they make it the fewer people will do it. There are reasons why not every kid on your average street is an I2P user. What they can't effectively ban they'll suppress by other means.