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Dru, I'm gonna take an adversarial point of view here. Wrong is wrong, and the magnitudes aren't really comparable at the resolution of the individual. At the

Dru, I'm gonna take an adversarial point of view here. Wrong is wrong, and the magnitudes aren't really comparable at the resolution of the individual. At the maximum, according to Statista, there were about 4mn slaves. There are about 5bn people online, out of what is projected to be 8bn. While there are certainly cultural boundaries, that 5bn almost certainly interfaces with Google. So taking a step back and looking at the magnitude implied by the scale, and the outsized power of Google in virtually every facet of society, I wonder if it really is stepping out of line. Keyword dragnets, indefensible tracking... What's next?

FeepingCreature 5y ago
Purely numerically comparing it, assuming slavery counts as a life spent in suffering, and there's a 1:1000 factor, given a forty year life expectancy, Google must cause the equivalent of 14 slavery-equivalent-suffering-days or more to be worse. How many days of back-breaking labor and abuse would you put in to get freedom from Google tracking for the rest of your life? For me at three days, it'd be arguable; three weeks would be a stretch. (Of course, I have no actual experience to compare.)