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Would that be useful? First, arms industries and even mercenaries don't seem to have much difficulty operating. So, whatever boycotts individuals might practic
by dalbasal 9y ago
Would that be useful?
First, arms industries and even mercenaries don't seem to have much difficulty operating. So, whatever boycotts individuals might practice don't really do much. Even tobacco companies find employees, and no one likes them.
Second, we (in practice, eg eu cookie laws) rarely define these effectively. Is face recognition the problem? Let's ID people based on some other markers. You'd probably need very broad, principled, constituion-esque language. It is illegal to de-anonymise, store data or somesuch. My guess is that this will be almost impossible politically with bootleggers and Baptist's left right and centre.
There are just very few examples of what we would need, in modern legislation.
- rtpg 9y agoLegislation can help somewhat, but I think that having a stronger ethical stance can help a lot. Think back when Y combinator funded that "installer bundled with ads" startup. They got yelled at for it by a lot of people. It slowly changes things
- dalbasal 9y agoI guess we have different levels of confidence in consumer action-like initiatives. One sleazy startup is a rounding error to yc. Online snooping is worth at least 100 bn to Google and FB, most of the revenue of two giant and otherwise desirable startups. Also, it's important to all the businesses that buy these ads, the creators that publish on YouTube (for example, but they honestly get very little from this), etc. I don't think we can away that with appeals.