The so-called free (as in beer) internet is the root of many problems. One should pay directly for the services/information and not route the money through some

The so-called free (as in beer) internet is the root of many problems. One should pay directly for the services/information and not route the money through some surveillance capitalist. Why would the internet be different than any other business? You don't go to the shop and just pick whatever you need because you have paid already elsewhere? Actually the end stage of communism they were supposed to abandon money. With capitalist greed abandoned, people would just take what they need and nothing more. Looks like lot of the internet works like that now. Except that we are not good socialist factory or farm workers but we have done our share by providing our privacy to the maintainers of "free" internet services. Edit: Actually I feared the link would not open for me with an EU IP because of GDPR blocker. That's not uncommon for US newspapers. However, it just brought up a huge cookie dialogue and showed the article just fine on agreeing.