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It's a little easier to stop visiting a website than it is to stop driving a car in US.
by wnevets 7y ago
It's a little easier to stop visiting a website than it is to stop driving a car in US.
- kcorbitt 7y agoI wonder though! If you were to give every American today an ultimatum that they had to either (1) never drive a car again or (2) never use the internet again, what percentage would take each side of the deal?
- nostalgk 7y agoWell, Uber uses the Internet to communicate. I know which one would be more useful overall to me. I think not using a few websites who use scummy ad practices (of which there are sometimes ethically reasonable alternatives, like this site) is a lot easier than never driving again, though.
- kgwxd 7y agoBut websites are on the internet, they're not the internet.
- earthboundkid 7y agoYes, thank you for using your Gopher client to post this highly relevant and on-topic comment that none of us had already known since forever.
- btilly 7y agoGiven that Americans gave YOU the internet, it seems more appropriate to ask Europeans whether they would prefer to not use the Internet, or to stop writing bad laws that cause problems for Internet companies.
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoGP was not making this a US versus EU thing at all. Why are you?
- supergauntlet 7y agoNever mind that, how on earth is GDPR a bad law? Is making the bare minimum effort to safeguard customer data such a high cost of doing business?
- btilly 7y agoYou may not see a discussion of having all Americans off the Internet in a discussion about a EU law as not US versus EU. But that isn't how it read to me.
- tomhoward 7y agoThe commenter you replied to is American, and right up to the root comment, the subthread had nothing to do with Americans vs Europeans using the internet. The comment exclusively about a hypothetical choice between driving and using the internet.
- earthboundkid 7y agoIs it? There are numerous US cities where you can live comfortably without owning a car. Living without using the big five is all but impossible in part because you never know what they're doing behind the scenes.
- njharman 7y agoFor some, maybe. But not at all for me. I'd argue internet has greatly reduced if not almost eliminated need for driving car for many people. I could get by without car for week. Not having internet for same period much less so. All my finances, banks, retirement, taxes, budgeting etc is online. most of my work (email, googling, tools) is only possible online, 90+ percent of my entertainment and social media is online. My maps, calendar, appointments, education, finding things out such as court houses address or phone number of restaurant is online. Much of my medical (presprections, appoint schedule, doctor/nurse correspondence) is online. Most of my shopping is on line.
- wnevets 7y agoThe choice wouldn't be using the internet vs driving a car. The entire internet isn't using these tracking scripts. Boycotting websites for their tracking behavior is way easier than giving up a car.