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by mindslight 1142 days ago
I agree with your sentiment, but it's not really relevant here. Georgism doesn't say much about restricting the right to use a piece of land. Rather it's about what it costs to maintain that right (and isn't actually a huge departure from the current state of things where that cost is generally nonzero except in the rare cases of allodial title).

For example, homeowners associations are a significant source of tyranny, that often literally regulate what color you can paint your shed. It's probable that under Georgism the lack of desire to keep one's abstract property value high would lead to a lot fewer of them, and homeowners would actually end up more free.