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Users are not being coerced. Not being offered the products you want is not coercion.
by diego_sandoval 3y ago
Users are not being coerced. Not being offered the products you want is not coercion.
- indigo0086 3y agoYou're leaning many HN dwellers are communists
- pmontra 3y agoCommunists as in collective ownership of the means of production or Communists as in some other non canonical definition?
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoAh, yes, of course. Doing the slightest thing to reign in the worst abuses of trillion dollar companies is equivalent to completely abolishing private property. Thanks for the insight.
- l33t7332273 3y agoAt some point it is. A smart phone is essentially a need today.
- Daishiman 3y agoI literally cannot use public parking in my city without an app. A ton of services are requiring app based 2FA for their use. Anyone without a smartphone that uses either Android or iOS is literally being left out of a huge chunk of the modern world. “Own this or you’ll be relegated to the fringes of society” very much sounds like coercion to me.
- baq 3y agoIt’s electricity a product or a utility? What is a smartphone? I’d argue that smartphones are rapidly approaching being utilities and search is way past that point.