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Guess what - the old Internet created plenty of content for free, without incentive of monetization, yet people still did it. The Web has suffered greatly as a
by deadmetheny 8y ago
Guess what - the old Internet created plenty of content for free, without incentive of monetization, yet people still did it. The Web has suffered greatly as a result of the bullshit mindset that just because you put something online, you are entitled to make money for it.
- xxpor 8y agoI think you need to rethink who's entitled here.
- deadmetheny 8y agoInformation wants to be free.
- Xcelerate 8y agoRight, that’s why I specifically said “monetary incentive”. There will always be non-monetary reasons to create content. Are you proposing that trying to make money using the internet is morally wrong? Or just that collecting user data is wrong? Or that collecting data without consent and a clear explanation is wrong? Because if the line is drawn at the latter, then that’s what GDPR is for, and so I don’t understand why people would be upset about having to click through a bunch of notices that try to make it clear how user data is being used.
- icebraining 8y agoThe problem is that there's no actual consent, just simulacra. The GDPR doesn't say that you just have to "make it clear how user data is being used", it says the user must freely give consent, which means they must not only explicitly do so, as not giving consent must not mean the user loses access to services or content (see Recital 43).
- deadmetheny 8y ago>Are you proposing that trying to make money using the internet is morally wrong? Not inherently. >Or just that collecting user data is wrong? Yes, under any and all circumstances. The security implications alone are staggering.