Wow, comment section there is a true dumpster fire.
That said, it seems that America is just flailing about and hoping for the best. and not even expecting the worst if the comment section is to be believed.
Which, to me, really illustrates the astroturfing going on.
I can go months without ever seeing any reference to the Stasi and, in this single comment section, I see dozens of references? There have been plenty of similar programs through history but a bunch of "Americans" point to the same German group to illustrate their point? It doesn't add up at all.
Do yourself a favor and install shutup.css to shield yourself from one of the ultimate showcases of human idiocy — Internet comment sections. (Irony intended.) Even works on iOS.
Do you have any data supporting this? I'd like to think I could be an accurate judge of this myself, but given that my consumption of media is extremely biased by my location and languages of literacy, I don't think my anecdotal data is worth anything.
I was talking about online discussions (e.g., comments on Blog Maverick, etc). Australians have been very supportive on the whole of measures here, but I've still seen some absolutely baffling discussions online that descend into immediate, heated disputes.
We had one notable protest in Australia in which a few were arrested and a policeman injured, but no, people here don't walk around showing off guns thankfully.
I don't think its unreasonable to be upset at what Cuban did here. People just want to go back to normal without a billionaire's hired snitch at the table next to them.
It’s like being upset at people posting photos of your disgusting restrooms on Yelp. A public business has to own its own behavior.
Cuban didn’t call out any businesses by name; it was a completely anonymous survey. But if your business is flouting safety expectations you should expect that eventually some customers are going to call you out publicly, with photos, videos etc as supporting evidence.
Mark Cuban did these businesses a favor, if they listen.
He didn't do anything even remotely invasive. If they want to go back to crowded restaurants full of people without masks sitting too close together they are going to discover pretty quickly how big of a mistake that is.
He hired a team of secret snitches. If physical distancing and masks hadn't damaged social trust enough already, now Texans in Dallas have to worry about a billionaire's ability to place hidden tattle tales in their midst.
Even if they had publicly made themselves known, which they should have, you can't seriously argue that what Cuban did wasn't invasive.
How is it invasive? He sent shoppers to determine the rate of compliance. Honestly the government should have done this. I didn’t even see him calling out any location by name. Why are you so angry?
Secret Snitches? You are aware this was all reported anonymously so no one knows what stores were or weren't operating withing guidelines. So who exactly does this affect?