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I think like most people, you have the chicken and egg backwards. People know our government is neigh-encouraging corporations to collect personal data to feed
by unfairthere 3y ago
I think like most people, you have the chicken and egg backwards. People know our government is neigh-encouraging corporations to collect personal data to feed into their pipeline(s). To take on the corpations is to take on the government. Those in the U.S. have little control over either in this case.
- mindslight 3y agoSaying "backwards" implies a single direction causality, when it's more like a bidirectional synergy where each supports the other (like "chicken and egg" for that matter). You seem to be attributing all commercial surveillance to the desires of the government, which is obviously not true given that the business reasons for surveillance stand on their own. It is however far too easy to write off those business reasons as "legitimate", while ignoring that they form their own systems of control.