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> Why should the government intervine between consenting adults agreeing on a contract willfully? Isn't this the definition of tyranny and why we oppose things
by rmc 10y ago
> Why should the government intervine between consenting adults agreeing on a contract willfully? Isn't this the definition of tyranny and why we oppose things such as the war on drugs?
The idea that contracts between adults are sacred is basically a libertarian philosophy. Many countries (incl Germany) often limit what contracts can do.
You can also make a case that people did not "freely consent" to transferring data. A click-through multi-page legalise doesn't count as "consent"
- patrickaljord 10y ago> Many countries (incl Germany) often limit what contracts can do. Coming from Syria myself, I'm well aware that many countries do not respect people's freedom to contract freely. Doesn't mean that they are not tyrannies. Also, the Whatsapp TOS pretty much says that they can update their TOS whenever and however they want, so when you first try to use it, you should not expect any kind of control over your data, if you care about that, use an open source alternative. I will never understand people who consent to proprietary software TOS and then complain about these TOS changing in certain ways when this is what they are all about. I mean this has been Stallman arguments against proprietary software for like 40 years now. Want complete control? Use free/open source software. Don't care about that, use proprietary software such as Whatsapp. What makes less sense to me is using something such as Whatsapp and demand and expect what only free open source software can deliver.