" What if you had to work in a business to have equity in that business?” Here’s a business owner who shares your interest in Halo."
That’s clever.
“this was a normal feature of social/community life that has since been eroded by the Internet.”
The pedophile hysterias of the 80s, coupled with nightly news of every single scary crime in the country, is what eroded that feature, as suddenly children were not allowed to trust their neighbors. Even today most children are not allowed to go outside. The internet didn’t erode the thing, it grew to fill the vacuum left by our own paranoia.
The core question of what started the thread js, I guess, who owns this system, and are they executed for misusing the system, including for any data breaches?