[MichaelZuo]

Isn’t that… life?

Even literal regulated electricity utilities aren’t expected to provide service to every last marginal customer.

For example, a poor old grandma missing many electricity bill payments usually will see leniency if she is polite, the utility eventually won’t try to collect cash anymore and instead put a lien on the home while continuing to provide service.

But if the billing department receives multiple threats from her, then they may just cut the service.

[johnnyanmac]

I really hope our freedom's aren't relinquished on a platform as fortified as "It is what it is".

[MichaelZuo]

This doesn’t make sense?

How does “freedom” relate to an electrical utility deciding whether to cut service?

[johnnyanmac]

"Freemdom" is accepting that mostly marginalized people get their power cut because they are marginalized. Your reaction to that is to shrug and move on instead of investigating the systems below that keep the marginalized as so.

Even if we take marginalization out of it, this is the same kind of system that let's Healthcare recklessly utilize AI Systems to automatically reject patients' care, with a Herculean effort required to find a human to talk to. Its easy yo shrug until you are hallucinated into their crosshair.

But sure, that's "freedom".

[MichaelZuo]

Even after re-reading this comment, it still reads like gibberish. As if my example was half read, or not at all.

By definition, a billing department of a utility has to be able to “marginalize”… in order to function.

There’s literally no other way I can see for it to work.

[palata]

Not entirely sure what you are trying to say, other than you don't really care as long as you are not the one who is marginalised.

Anyway it's generally a tradeoff: is it worth doing it? By adding very strict age verification systems and marginalising people, do we make society globally better or not? Will those age verification systems work to prevent underage people from accessing the stuff we don't want them to access in the first place? Not clear. If they do, will it result in underage people being better? Not clear. And if it does, will it have been worth the damage on the people it marginalised? Not clear.

[MichaelZuo]

Since my old reply was flagged, this now seems like coordinated trolling.

I really doubt you are genuinely incapable of understanding what “regulated electricity utilities” or “expected to provide service” means.

[palata]

I didn't downvote you, not sure what you are talking about.

[MichaelZuo]

Is this AI written?

I didn’t accuse you of downvoting. It’s literally not possible for HN users to downvote the comment they reply to.

Anyone with seemingly over 10k karma would know that.

[palata]

I genuinely didn't know :-). I don't generally downvote comments I reply to. I don't downvote when I disagree, I downvote when I believe the comment is very low quality, in which case I don't engage at all.