Counter argument, it's wildly more important that people be able to monetize their data and most of the people against it are failing to appreciate how economic

Counter argument, it's wildly more important that people be able to monetize their data and most of the people against it are failing to appreciate how economically progressive data monetization is. People used to /pay/ for software, not just professional software but software in general. And when they didn't pay for that software it was often because there simply wasn't software of that kind for their use case. Being able to sell data is the primary reason consumers have access to the plethora of free and quality services that they have today. There has never been this many good free games, this much free music, nor any other similar quanitity of free and useful services like office software in history and a large amount of that is due to data monetization. It's nearly impossible for me to care about what the data privacy advocates have to say when the movement has historically handwaved away the social benefits of data monetization while clinging to dubious icons like Snowden and Manning.