The Google cofounder has severed ties between California and several of his business entities, including his family office.

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    That’s not how eminent domain works. At all.

    Eminent domain is when the government forces someone to sell their assets to the government. In exchange, the government must pay them the fair market value.

    In other words, the government would be the one paying them all that profit.

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, the word to use here is civil forfeiture. “Oh but that’s not how civil forfeiture works”, well the way cops use it is not how it works either so I think we’re good.