Once a military base and these days a public park, Presidio is 1,500 acres of federal land within San Francisco’s city limits. Fans of the Freedom City concept have long eyed it as a location. In March 2023, President Trump made that a campaign promise. Today, he started to make good on that promise by firing all the board members of the trust that runs it.
America already has something like freedom cities. Native American tribal nations are autonomous and self-governing to a degree. But Freedom Cities adherents want more autonomy than tribal nations. Tribal nations are subject to US federal laws on the environment, science, tech & medical regulation. It’s those in particular that Big Tech wants to be free of.
Will libertarian Big Tech get its wish? They’ve already succeeded in Honduras. The US Congress may not be so keen. Setting up a ‘state-within-a-state’ has many downsides and will likely have little public support. But the people who really want it have plenty of money & buyable politicians on their side, so who knows.
Great. A grey zone where ethical principles of scientific research and technological advancement are not enforceable by law and abuses are consequenceless. Hmm, right around the time they’ve started disappearing people into “detention centers” too.
Slap “Freedom” on something and so many Americans will eat it.
You just know when they call something ‘Freedom Cities’, they’re going to be anything but.
I hope people wise up to these tech companies, who have been lying to them, tearing them apart by poisoning their algorithms with rage bait, controlling what people see, stealing all of their data, stealing all of the music, literature and artwork of mankind to train their stupid fucking robots on. What else is it going to take, why the fuck are people still using Facebook like nothing is going on? What the fuck.
