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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Is that in any way legal?
itās the USA, itās near certainly going to be multiple ways of legal
and if they get kicked in the teeth, theyāll get around it by putting up a little sign somewhere near the door (visible, but unobvious) which claims that āby shopping there you accept the possibilityā, and that may be enough
this might run afoul of some of our scattered price gouging regulations (see some instances of sellers getting slapped during the toilet paper shortage nonsense), but interestingly this was announced after the Supreme Court kneecapped our ability to enforce any regulations at all
itās almost like the corpos took a monstrous lesson from covid and were waiting for the right combination of deniable technology and probability of the success of the Supreme Courtās judiciary coup to announce something like this
hmm yeah thatās a good point. I wonder if theyāre planning to skirt that by capping the raised price, just plan to avoid places with that regulation entirely, or what else
probably itāll be some inventive new form of extremely-USAian fuckery that Iām not in a cynical mood to guess at in speculation right now
I happened to come across an article mentioning the RobinsonāPatman Act (from 1936) in relation with wage fixing by algorithm.
From Wikipedia: āa United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discriminationā
It might be relevant here. Obviously I am not a US lawyer specialised in monopoly law.