Data privacy is all the rage and people want to have an internet where companies need permission to sell your data and where you can use the FREE service without letting them tell advertisers what you actually like.
There are only 2 possible models for the internet
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A free internet where websites, browsers and search engines make money by selling your data to companies who want to sell their products to users.
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A subscription based internet where you companies don’t use your data but charge a fee to use a specific website, browser or search engine.
I can guarantee that all these people complaining about “muh privacy” would not like having a paywall restricted internet.
You don’t care about your data because you don’t realize how valuable it is, and how bad the deal is that in exchange for not being able to control your data, you get to see some cute cat memes.
We’re headed to a world where your health insurance company can pay a data broker to get access to data Kroger collects about what you buy when shopping. Imagine your health insurance going up because you buy real butter vs margarine. Or not enough vegetables.
But hey, at least you get to see your friends vacation pictures for free on Facebook. Totally worth it.
Most people don’t understand that we are headed for discriminatory pricing where everyone pays the maximum they can bare up to ensure everyone stays in poverty in an endless consumption loop. Shit we kinda are already there.
Think RealPage and rental markets in REIT owned corporate ghettos.
And the normie still got nothing to hide clearly.
States will ban the practice quickly if companies start price discriminating, the only reason insurance companies have gotten away with it is because they have justified reasons if they started using precision with our data it would be quickly outlawed.
The internet has only been allowed to be a free market because we agreed to be the product. Imagine a world where Google isn’t free, where you are charged per usage like the old phone plans that cost money per amount of letters typed.
You have a lot of faith in the US government’s willingness to solve problems for people vs for companies.
We have a gun violence epidemic because gun manufacturer profits matter more than children’s lives. Forgive me if I’m skeptical that congress would do anything other than protect big business. Health insurance lobbyists will make sure of it.
I have faith in the states/city I live in lol. Maryland/DC will ban the practice, probably the while North east VA upwards, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, West coast, Colorado, and New Mexico would stop this, the feds MIGHT but probably not.
The health insurance lobbyists won’t hesitate to inject money into a local election for a candidate that agrees to keep things as they are.
But hey, I remember being naive and idealistic once, too.
Have you seen our government lately? That’s not fucking happening. Maybe in the furthest left states. But even that is a huge maybe.