It could be functional and fine (and largely useless), but the issue is one of these toadies is going to make it malfunctional, and therein lies the problem.

Meta pulls out their wallet, and gives a little charity to the poors.

Fine em 100 trillion. It would solve a lot of your problems, and they could probably still survive but would be quite contrite going forward.

It’s pretty hard to read. Journalism is so rough these days, and you don’t even know if you are reading a humans words anymore.

I’m about to check this Nivalis Nights game out. Thing was in self caused development hell for years and I don’t have my hopes up. But I’m invested as I liked its predecessor and I’ve been waiting for it for awhile, so I’ll at least give it a fair shake.

Absolutely zero, anymore.

It’s not enough. We leave such a large digital footprint anymore, it’s not hard to connect everything and everyone together. They almost certainly have some pretty crazy technology that we don’t even have access too as well.

The bigger thing here, is this is a supposed first world country using your personal information and communications to intimidate and threaten you. Heck to even imprison you. That’s third world country tinpot dictator-like behaviour.