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Keep your head out of the past. The internet is becoming the way we do everything now; it's a necessity.
by pastycrinkles 12y ago
Keep your head out of the past. The internet is becoming the way we do everything now; it's a necessity.
- Zaephyr 12y agoThe Internet is a necessity. That doesn't make actions like these less creepy.
- nathanaldensr 12y ago"Keep your head out of the past?" What a rediculous rebuttal. Parent poster is well within his or her rights to feel that way. All the evidence we've been presented with in the past few years should lead everyone to the same conclusion. You are being tracked and your data sold to the highest bidder. How is that not cause for concern? Just because it occurred in the past?
- Maken 12y agoRejecting this kind of bad practices isn't the same as rejecting internet.
- pdkl95 12y agoJust because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean you get to project those values on the rest of us. Spying on your customers doesn't magically become moral simply because technology has made it easy. It most certainly is not necessary. Really, the only reasons surveillance as a business model has worked is most people don't realize the extent that it is going on and by the time they do a monopoly or oligopoly has already established itself. Taking advantage of ignorance is at best rude and offensive, and at worst it should be criminal. Unfortunately, the laws have yet to catch up to abuses like Verizon's MitM rewriting of HTTP headers. Worse, fixing laws and enforcing them against these modern abuses is going to be very hard: regulatory capture's a 'helluva drug.