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That's not a new question: * whose fault is it? Tobacco manufacturers' for making products which cause cancer, or the common folk's for agreeing to smoke cigar
by blub 8y ago
That's not a new question:
* whose fault is it? Tobacco manufacturers' for making products which cause cancer, or the common folk's for agreeing to smoke cigarettes without "giving a fuck" about their health?
* whose fault is it? Pharma companies' for making drugs with terrible side-effects, or the common folk's for taking those drugs without "giving a fuck" about their health?
There are many examples, but in all of them the government stepped in and stopped the abuse of the big companies, just like it must do for Google, Facebook & co which take advantage of the common folk's inability to understand the very complex mechanisms those companies designed to deceive them.
Pretty simple.
- drcongo 8y agoI like the analogy here. I'd love to see this handled in exactly the same way that governments handle smoking, with huge tax penalties and government health warnings all over apps that abuse your data.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoPharma companies don't intentionally make medicine which cause side effects. It just happens to be hard to design medicines that don't given the complexity of biological systems. I don't see how this claim is relevant to whatever point you're making.