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Re:San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep h... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:29PM (#36333008)
The law in practice doesn’t prohibit it. You’re seeing a debate about whether it should, a debate to which this quip adds nothing.
Re:San Francisco library turning off WiFi at night to keep h... by gumby on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @07:07PM (#36334127)
It directly addresses my excerpt of the comment I responded to. The author asked why access to public space should be "given away" and then wrote "public spaces are ours" (emphasis mine).

The cleverness of Anatole France's famous quote is that he framed it in a way that the answers to those questions were automatically obvious, by emphasizing the massive difference in agency and scope of action between the haves and the have nots.