Some surveillance and worker control practices (like facial recognition surveillance of workers) should be directly outlawed as policy decisions because we can collectively decide what kind of world we want, and other practices (like automated checkout) are harder to judge because there are real consumer benefits alongside worker harms.

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Ezra Klein

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There were things... that in my view we should just make a social decision to outlaw... There's the stuff that is genuinely like grim and dystopian and maybe we should just outlaw. And then there is stuff like the just generalized automation in which there genuinely can be a consumer surplus

Source

We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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