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'Don't break the internet': Idiot's slogan stole your privacy

• pwg 15y ago
  > the EU tentatively suggested rules based on the principle that people own their own data, and this property right includes exclusivity ("the right to be forgotten") – guess who was firing all guns against it? Facebook and Google... At Davos, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said the EU proposal would "break the internet". > Young poses an interesting question. How could a network that was designed to be so robust it could withstand a nuclear attack actually be so fragile it "breaks" if one so much as breathes upon it? Because Eric Schmidt is using a different definition of "break" than Young is using. In Schmidt's case, "break the internet" is actually defined as "break our ability to monetize your activities on the internet, thereby breaking our (Google's) revenue stream".