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Protection of the water we drink is a legal right. Which is why companies cannot dump waste into the river, no matter what financial impacts it has on them. Pr
by abdullahkhalids 2y ago
Protection of the water we drink is a legal right. Which is why companies cannot dump waste into the river, no matter what financial impacts it has on them.
Protection of user data is a legal right, or increasingly recognized to be. Companies have no right to sell it, or misuse it, no matter what financial impacts it has on them.
Rights cannot be contracted away or sold. They are rights.
- delichon 2y agoI rent my rights via a contract to certain defined aspects of my autonomy for about forty hours per week. In exchange for that I get tokens that I can exchange for food. If I couldn't contract away those rights I'd get hungry. I'm also willing to rent my right to determine the contents of advertisements inserted into my daily news feed, for the right price. These things feel equivalent in kind to me.
- ab5tract 2y agoWhat rights are you contracting away, exactly? Usually capitalist rhetoric refers to contracting as a right in itself, muddying your point significantly.
- delichon 2y agoI contract away time-slices of my human effort. I consider that I own that effort by right, and part of that ownership bundle is the right to destroy or exchange it. So it is consistent to both have a right and to trade parts of it away. It would be less of a right if I were prohibited from exchanging it for other priorities, like food.
- johnthewise 2y agoYou are saying I shouldn't be able to consent to letting someone sell my data? Can I sell my own data? How about if I shared it, would that be illegal?