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To: sodpoodle
1. Nearly the only checks I write today are to the government in one form or another.

2. Post Office - tremendous infrastructure in semirural and rural America. Could be privatized.

3. Newspaper - nearly already gone. Free papers have taken over local ads.

4. Book - nope. What Amazon giveth, Amazon can taketh away, and already have in the 1984 incident. If you're not backing their stuff up offline you're at risk of a purge.

5. Land line - probably gone, but land lines work when towers go down, which they do.

6. Corporate music - similar to books, if you don't have local backup you won't have music if somebody at streaming corporate decides not.

7. Network television - if only. When, Lord, oh, when?

8. Personal files - these will still be out there in another location, and the same caution applies - if you don't have it backed up locally somebody (coughcoughAmazonWebServices) can simply decide you're not worthy anymore.

9. Privacy - gone.

10. Fax machines - that functionality is easily and cheaply added to popular consumer printers. It won't be going out via land line anymore (see above) but there's a place for scanned images.

There's a theme here: is the new corporation any more trustworthy than the old ones? The answer is almost certainly not. Lord Acton said "power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

35 posted on 08/25/2021 10:40:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

We have kept one Land Line in the house. Good to have.


126 posted on 08/25/2021 12:49:46 PM PDT by Exit148
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