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Slavery and child labor were also just "part of the business model". Some business models are predatory societal negatives and should be done away with at a go
by white-flame 8y ago
Slavery and child labor were also just "part of the business model".
Some business models are predatory societal negatives and should be done away with at a government level of respecting individual rights. Behind-the-scenes tracking and data brokering are in that class.
- strken 8y agoSlavery and child labour are coercive. Not letting you use a website is only coercive if that website is Facebook or Google or some other monopoly core to a person's ability to function in modern society. If you can't access Bob's Bargain Basement Underwear then you've got plenty of competitors to go to.
- white-flame 8y agoIt has nothing to do with being coercive, or any such specific facet of any implementation of rights violation. It's about being a rights violation, full stop. Regarding options, in the current model it is generally unknown to the user what is happening with their seemingly private, personal, and "lock icon" encrypted activities on a site. While some here might consider it a "fair exchange" to give up PII in exchange for website services, the vast majority do not understand or even perceive that, and it is not an informed exchange at all. It violates the user, both in the nature of the exchange and in the privacy implications. It is a type of interaction that should rightly be barred in the absence of understanding and explicit, intentional consent.