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That is wrong way to approach the issue. These companies should not be gathering personal information worse than NSA. Personal information is personal, and free

• ianai 9y ago
  I like your sentiment but we’re talking serious company breakups in order to force it. Pretty much most industries could use some trust-busting but the political imperative (outrage) isn’t directed that way.
• AJ007 9y ago
  At least the targeting is advertising and not drone strikes.
  • hedora 9y ago
    I’m sorry, but trying to draw this distinction is dangerously naive. In order to get decent ad targeting for most industries, they need more than enough information than is needed to target a drone strike. They are legally obligated to share this information with multiple governments (including the US) that openly and routinely engage in extra-judicial killings of civilians. The only solutions to this moral quandary are to either (a) change multiple governments, some democratically elected, some not, or to (b) simply not gather the information in the first place. Google has already tried and failed at option (a), and option (b) would eliminate the vast majority of their revenue.
• kodablah 9y ago
  > free people in a free society should not be followed by multinational corporations Rather, free people should be allowed to choose. And free people are the ones making these companies too.