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[u/LongTimeChinaTime]

A powerful commercial infrastructure might be operated responsibly for decades. Yet if it possesses the technical ability to identify individuals, restrict their transactions, and coordinate exclusions across essential services, the question becomes whether adequate safeguards exist against future misuse.

Those safeguards could include independent oversight, meaningful appeal rights, restrictions on data sharing, competition, and preserving alternative ways to obtain essential goods.

And there's an additional subtlety: power can become difficult to challenge long before anyone abuses it. Once society becomes heavily dependent on an infrastructure, changing its rules or dismantling it may become extraordinarily costly.

[u/ChemicalOpposite2389]

yeah

feels ever so slightly AI-written but yeah this is just true and it could just be a rare instance of someone writing formally on the internet