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Are you implying that we should impose bans on technological and scientific progress? Or that this progress should only be limited to state owned institutions?

• dllthomas 13y ago
  Something can be creepy and yet have no remedy that isn't worse.
  • DominikR 13y ago
    I definitely see why this is potentially creepy to some, but I think that we should also be objective and look at the track record of those companies in question. Googles business model isn't based on doing something malicious like selling your private data to mexican drug lords, neither does Apple, Microsoft or Facebook. The real threat is some kind of data loss (where Google has a pretty good track record) and secret wiretapping warrants issued by secret courts based on secret laws. (but even there it's not in Googles interest and they are forced by the state to comply)
    • dllthomas 13y ago
      I wasn't making any broader point; I just didn't like the way you engaged with the grandparent here. We need to stop reinforcing the pattern that "I don't like X => we have to do Y to try and stop X". You could just as well have engaged more constructively, asking whether they thought there was any Y that might be worth looking at.