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This is an insane take in a world where you cannot access basic public services, pay bills, or really do business at all without an internet connection. Connecting your house to a public road is not an invitation for biker gangs to throw drug parties in your backyard, and connecting to the internet is not a free-for-all either.

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I find your public road network analogy interesting. Should your car require you to prove your age before it will start? How else can we protect your kid (and others) from the dangers of an 8 year old taking the family sedan for a spin?

> in a world where you cannot access basic public services, pay bills, or really do business at all without an internet connection

That world doesn't exist, though (at least not in my part of the US). I don't need the internet to do any of those things.

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