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A whole neighborhood run by Google? That's even more dystonian than many Black Mirror episodes.

I’m genuinely not sure if you intended sarcasm?

It’s not really anything new. Over the last couple hundred years there’s a long history of towns and neighborhoods run by companies.

See:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village

In the U.S, at least you can argue that the company has some limited responsibility to uphold rights; in a company town, it is generally the case that the company town can not prevent you from expressing yourself by removing you from the place with trespassing statute [0].

As a former Torontonian, I have no faith that the council or the public will prevent abuse by Google until it gets really out of hand.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

>Over the last couple hundred years there’s a long history of towns and neighborhoods run by companies.

And how do the vast majority of those end up? Utopian?

I know that Weed, California was a company town historically. There has been some recent conflict regarding who owns the water in the town, as the company sold the water to the town for a dollar a year for a contract of 50 years that expired in 2016.

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