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   mist (ai@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jul-2023 13:32:43 JST mist

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   @cinerion @ceo_of_monoeye_dating I just read a little bit about the Land Registration Act of 2002 in the UK, which is known for basically abolishing squatter's rights (adverse possession).
   
   Why did they want to abolish it? As the name suggests, their goal was to strengthen the UK's land registry system, by making *registration* rather than *possession* the determiner of ownership.
   
   As I read the quote in the pic, I thought of your example of TLDs. By making "registration in a database" as the sole determiner of ownership, they are basically making owning land just like owning TLDs (or NFTs) and ignoring the situation on the ground that you describe.
   
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   Although, a counterpoint:
   
   In the context of urban squatting, I'd say that seeing a (possibly expensive) building built on a piece of land is enough for a reasonable person to conclude that someone else thinks that they own the land. That feels different than if you're on the frontier and you see a patch of forest so you start cutting down trees to build a house, and then 10 years later some douche comes and says he owned that forest all along.
   
   The mere presence of a building on the land feels to me like "an effort to make it clear" you do own the land, although I agree that an empty disused building isn't doing any good to society.