lol this is so fucking grim
— Classic Bird Respecter (@BirdRespecter) February 5, 2021
"Would allow tech companies to effectively form separate local governments in Nevada.. that would carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and justice courts"https://t.co/zO4HWP13da
For folks to who want spend their Wednesday evenings reading the bill, it's now embedded at the bottom of the story. https://t.co/0t2g4juGAv
— Colton Lochhead (@ColtonLochhead) February 4, 2021
Congratulations to Nevada for inventing the company town. https://t.co/9WuzeddhSA
— Matt Pearce ? (@mattdpearce) February 5, 2021
I imagine the gaming and mining industries must be jealous that big tech might now *also* get to write its own rules in Nevada https://t.co/JaCOiLRQQo
— Alex Kania (@alexandrakania_) February 4, 2021
Tired: Corporations buying legislation
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) February 5, 2021
Wired: Corporations buying government officials
Inspired: Corporations buying policy that lets them literally become governments https://t.co/magfUCvOJv pic.twitter.com/pDQItPxbzt
NEW: The "Innovation Zones" announced by Gov. Sisolak last month won't just be campuses for new tech companies.
— Colton Lochhead (@ColtonLochhead) February 4, 2021
Acc. or a draft of the proposed bill, those zones would eventually become their own local govt, with the same authority as a county. Details:https://t.co/0t2g4juGAv
Start your own company
— balajis.com (@balajis) February 5, 2021
Start your own community
Start your own currency
Start your own cityhttps://t.co/yCBeJoTL8y pic.twitter.com/id0ubsP7S8
The Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 put the U.S. on a slippery slope to functional sovereignty that eventually culminated in...https://t.co/8wnOu9H5qA
— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) February 5, 2021
Apparently, Nevada Democrats didn't realize that Robocop was a cautionary tale about OCP, it wasn't a friggin' GUIDEBOOK or an ENDORSEMENT https://t.co/ZKkyyJs9qG
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) February 5, 2021
Very pleased to announce I'm forming an exploratory committee to run for Mayor of Blockchain City, NV
— Mark Riffenburg (@ItsJustMarkNV) February 4, 2021
Contributions can be made in Doge coin.
My tentative slogan is:
"Yes We 0x431rfDa64wy62qraH489uajQoir42"https://t.co/cthnvbH0WH
Neal Stephenson predicted all this shit like three separate times. https://t.co/QCYHQuTBGQ
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 5, 2021
Nevada and California fell over each other a few years ago to lire a Tesla battery plant with tax incentives (NV won) -- clearly the appetite for tech revenue remains https://t.co/nuKAmL1oOV
— Jeremy B. White (@JeremyBWhite) February 5, 2021
Every day we come one step closer to SNOW CRASH, and reader, I am here for it. https://t.co/SaoN7PpkOg
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 5, 2021
21st century Fordism. I expect they’ll be allowed to run their own Smart Cities soon enough.
— Richard Seymour (@leninology) February 5, 2021
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments https://t.co/7dQpykCe92
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
— Las Vegas Review-Journal (@reviewjournal) February 4, 2021
https://t.co/y0ODiDHVFB
“What could go wrong?”https://t.co/ye3RV02NPA
— Ben Bowlin (@BenBowlinHSW) February 5, 2021
Now we know that Gov. Sisolak has his eyes on national office - because he just deep throated Google, Amazon, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook's deepest fantasies - "tech company towns"
— Marc J. Randazza (@marcorandazza) February 5, 2021
Are you fucking kidding me? https://t.co/9SnqtdG2Le
lol this is so fucking grim
— Classic Bird Respecter (@BirdRespecter) February 5, 2021
"Would allow tech companies to effectively form separate local governments in Nevada.. that would carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and justice courts"https://t.co/zO4HWP13da
me: students, let’s keep in mind the relative autonomy of the state from the control of the capitalist class ?
— darryl li (@dcli) February 5, 2021
nevada: https://t.co/dbQNCN7ZlG
For folks to who want spend their Wednesday evenings reading the bill, it's now embedded at the bottom of the story. https://t.co/0t2g4juGAv
— Colton Lochhead (@ColtonLochhead) February 4, 2021
Very pleased to announce I'm forming an exploratory committee to run for Mayor of Blockchain City, NV
— Mark Riffenburg (@ItsJustMarkNV) February 4, 2021
Contributions can be made in Doge coin.
My tentative slogan is:
"Yes We 0x431rfDa64wy62qraH489uajQoir42"https://t.co/cthnvbH0WH
NEW: The "Innovation Zones" announced by Gov. Sisolak last month won't just be campuses for new tech companies.
— Colton Lochhead (@ColtonLochhead) February 4, 2021
Acc. or a draft of the proposed bill, those zones would eventually become their own local govt, with the same authority as a county. Details:https://t.co/0t2g4juGAv
New economic development plan: turning Cyberpunk 2077 into a documentaryhttps://t.co/ePiRGocIKy
— Eshaan Vakil ? (@hornetvtol) February 4, 2021
This is embarrassing for Nevada.https://t.co/zy6qofDN22
— Patrick Donnelly (@BitterWaterBlue) February 4, 2021
Here come the plantationshttps://t.co/W8yDM8Gl0Y
— Red Kahina (@RedKahina) February 5, 2021
Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments https://t.co/BfkVsCZQUC pic.twitter.com/28wdXGbHyp
— Jerry Brito (@jerrybrito) February 5, 2021
holy crap, holy craphttps://t.co/9Htv3IDoxO
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) February 5, 2021
Corporations are not just people anymore. Now they're allowed to be Sovereign Citizens too.https://t.co/5ajavwLPya
— Will ? Menaker (@willmenaker) February 5, 2021
" Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. "
— Strife (@Strife212) February 5, 2021
It's happeninghttps://t.co/zhpRfcTgUZ
wait are we doing company towns again? https://t.co/5CA67YNGDC
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) February 5, 2021
"The [Innovation Zones] would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts, and provide government services." ? https://t.co/depRQ4fElF
— Las Vegas Locally ? (@LasVegasLocally) February 5, 2021
NeOlIbErAlIsm Is dEaD https://t.co/2je5dxg5Sx pic.twitter.com/eJ7HWYlnAU
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) February 5, 2021
Nevada bill would let companies w/ a lot of land area form a county-like government with authority to levy taxes, form school districts/courts and provide gov services. How long would it be before a company gov is allowed to run its own district elections? https://t.co/msgePWyIOQ
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter) February 5, 2021
Big Tech companies would be allowed to form local governments, under a proposal being pushed by Nevada’s governor.
— Stacy Mitchell (@stacyfmitchell) February 5, 2021
I kid you not. I keep checking the dateline to see if it says April 1. 1/ https://t.co/pAm48QVM1v
"The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services." https://t.co/ZVJzmTRLOi
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 5, 2021
Fucking kill it with fire. Kill it with fire https://t.co/jZQ5oJN1ic
— gaby (@ermahgerdgerby) February 5, 2021
Saint Peter don't call me, cause I can't go.
— Paul Weimer ?? (@PrinceJvstin) February 5, 2021
I owe my soul to the Company Store.https://t.co/Kk0x7izo0u pic.twitter.com/E74uu0V633
"Zones would permit companies to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services."
— Midwestern Hedgie (@MidwestHedgie) February 5, 2021
Holy shit what a terrible idea.https://t.co/UWgabbaZm2
#Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments, including the power to impose taxes, create school districts, and establish courts: https://t.co/2IFXqFQfgm https://t.co/Ev8GtoJ5JA
— Douglas Lucas (@DouglasLucas) February 5, 2021
What (and I mean this sincerely) the actual fuck? https://t.co/jP6msaGFX5
— Jon Shieber (@jshieber) February 5, 2021
Nevada Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak wants to give corporations the ability to form their own governments, along with the ability to impose their own taxes and make their own courts.https://t.co/FffoDpxDXv pic.twitter.com/Y5fweKeRNh
— Possum Reviews (@ReviewsPossum) February 5, 2021
What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/hk5VYvd8mo
— Grace Lee PAWGs (@jamie_elizabeth) February 6, 2021
can't wait to pay surge prices at the uberHospital and send my kids to uberSchool where they will be groomed for the gig economy and try to contact my uberMayor through a byzantine maze of online FAQs https://t.co/v0HYvDZS0H
— raina douris (@RahRahRaina) February 5, 2021
It begins. #Infomocracy https://t.co/owwjxVSnS2
— DOCTORA Malka Older (@m_older) February 5, 2021
Guess it's a start. https://t.co/cTUE9rca1a ...
— Outsideness (@Outsideness) February 6, 2021
There are bad ideas, and then there's THIS: https://t.co/vd4BWZr2IG
— Morten Wears a Mask (@mor10) February 6, 2021
? RAW Capitalism, baby!
— ☭Nova?Shpakova☭ (@NovaShpakova) February 5, 2021
Wonder what these anti-Marxist, Libertarian types think about their "heros" creating totally unrepresentative Corporate states? Btw this IS the #WEF21 #4IR plan!
Nevada bill to permit tech-giants to form separate local governments https://t.co/OY7gNSXnTT
Article here: https://t.co/87IQGhVOJQ
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) February 5, 2021