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What does this mean for an average person like me? Based on the comments, I can opt out from those specific site but not from the phone company making data avai
by itchyjunk 9y ago
What does this mean for an average person like me? Based on the comments, I can opt out from those specific site but not from the phone company making data available to who ever purchases it? Am I better off going back to no SIM and only Google voice number pointed to a phone? (I did this for some time and recently put a SIM card back in.)
- EGreg 9y agoThe future is in empowering local communities and decentralizing power, via: solar power generation mesh networking local social networks identity that you control on your own phone hopefully the phone hardware and security will be commoditized and auditable. Here is what I'm talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMm7-j7yIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzMm7-j7yIY Edit: why the downvotes? I am genuinely curious. Can people who feel this way explain?
- ajmurmann 9y agoI think you are being downvoted because you aren't actually answering the parent's question but instead are using the opportunity to sell some vision of the future that might be overly optimistic and in fact might present the parent's concerns as less critical than they should be.
- EGreg 9y agoBut it does answer the root of the question! "Based on the comments, I can opt out from those specific site but not from the phone company making data available to who ever purchases it?" Well you can opt out of the phone company once people decentralize the stuff I mentioned. And then I said the same can be done for power generation companies and so on. But anyway, even though I disagree with it, at least that is a possible reason I was downvoted.
- wallace_f 9y agoWasn't it difficult living without data or a mobile phone connection?