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BeautifullyWeird · 3216 days ago · link · · parent · post: Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”
So we have all these corporations increasingly attempting to take away the ownership rights of citizens, and an impending Trans-Pacific Partnership that will grant them unprecedented power to influence or circumvent the laws of nations via lawsuits. I find this trajectory deeply disturbing. I fear a future where the nation state model of governance no longer exists, corporations are the new system of governance and you legally own nothing. I don't know, maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight.