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How can that kind of inequality look like justice to anyone other than someone very economically privileged ?
by backtoyoujim 6y ago
How can that kind of inequality look like justice to anyone other than someone very economically privileged ?
- bradbot 6y agoWhy the downvotes? The point is legitimate. Not everyone would be able to afford to pay for something like this.
- google234123 6y agoNot everyone can afford a BMW. Is that fair?
- renewiltord 6y agoAnd what, pray tell, do you expect a service provider to do when this happens? Privacy advocates screamed themselves shrill like this and what happened is that the NYT went paywall. Then they screamed themselves shrill that the poor don't have access to good news. Well...what did you think would happen?
- google234123 6y agoThe alternative is that they dont have access to these services.
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- awinter-py 6y agolook your objection is valid but: privacy as a legal right is complex and ill-defined -- if you look just at CCPA or GDPR, these are big laws with large compliance costs with the risk of benefiting incumbents like FB/G if your goal is to develop a robust case law for privacy in the united states, pay for privacy accomplishes that because if I pay a dollar for 'private mode', and the vendor breaks our contract, I can absolutely sue. we also don't know which privacy features users want. hard to write laws without market research, and you can't do market research if there's no market for a good. another issue is that if privacy laws 'demonetize free tiers', you're effectively paying for privacy anyway. 'pay for privacy' vs 'privacy as right' may be a false choice. I'm not saying market privacy is fair on the face of it, but it may be more effective than the alternatives.