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I 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,
by kcorbitt 7y ago
I 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.