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> If you have a restaurant where you've decided to list all your menu items at zero cost, that doesn't automatically grant you the power to kick people out beca
by hsod 11y ago
> If you have a restaurant where you've decided to list all your menu items at zero cost, that doesn't automatically grant you the power to kick people out because they refuse to eat off the floor.
Why not? Kicking someone out of your restaurant is exactly what you should do if you can't come to an agreement.
- Retra 11y agoThere is no agreement. That's my point. People serving websites with advertising are doing so under a bargain that users have never actually agreed to: that they are exchanging free content for advertising views. But the website makes an agreement with advertisers, not with the public. So in our restaurant analogy, it would be like if you had an agreement with your food supplier that they will provide you with cheap food if you make customers eat it off the floor, and now you're complaining that customers are not fulfilling their end of this deal. The customers don't have a deal with you. You just offer them free food, and they are taking it and trying not to eat off the floor. It's not their fault you offer free food. Don't do that.
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- hsod 11y agoThe agreement with the food supplier is irrelevant. If a customer walks into your free-food restaurant and finds the conditions unsuitable to them, they should leave. If they refuse, you should kick them out.