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Re:Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA by sowbug on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:37AM (#13829520)
Taxes work the same way. You pay money (or, if you wish, you work for money you don't get to keep) but don't get money in return. Rather, the money goes toward societal improvements. You can debate whether they're societal improvements you personally care about, but it's not a very interesting debate, because societal benefits aren't meant to be uniformly attractive to everyone.
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Re:Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA by kuschku on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:16PM (#13832222)
Except, everything funded by my taxes has to be open, freely accessible, etc.

Google is using ReCaptcha as measure to get an unfair edge over competitors and make competing even more impossible.

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Re:Introducing the Invisible reCAPTCHA by danso on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:54PM (#13833495)
> Except, everything funded by my taxes has to be open, freely accessible, etc.

You must not be living in the U.S. Even as strong as the FOIA and public records laws are, there's a huge amount of information and records that are exempted from free access:

http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/digital-journ...

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