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    • KILL THEM ALLcolin_s
    • There always exists that line where tragedy becomes comedyT-Dawg
    • no link to the article just an image? id want to see if there is substance or rational argument to back the headlinedeathboy
    • Here...

      https://www.nytimes.…      Morning_star
    • What is the big deal with personal data tracking. What is the worst that can happen? Personalized web ads?drgs
    • In a top 10 list of all the shit you face in life, where do you place personalized web ads?drgs
    • #1 :) but to go on, privacy is a large component of freedom. On the other end of it, you get things like China's social credit system.T-Dawg
    • Web ads aren't the worst thing, but it's going to start creeping into other aspects of life.T-Dawg
    • Mostly for the purpose of getting people to part with their money.T-Dawg
    • Or political influence like we saw with Cambridge AnalyticaT-Dawg
    • Classifying people by categories based on their data. "Sorry, you're in the Category A832, we can't provide that service to you sir"Bennn
    • If you are easy to influence, the problem lies with you, although considering that 90% of people are idiots and have the right to vote, I can sort of see the indrgs
    • -tent. This reminds me when I was in school, one of the subjects was religion. The suggested the class would have a visit from Jahovah's witnesses.drgs
    • The class protested, afraid of being brainwashed. This is something similar, a self declaration of immaturity, that you are not able to navigate in this life bydrgs
    • yourselfdrgs
    • I can understand that reasoning, but I think putting the responsibility entirely on the individual opens the gates to their exploitation.T-Dawg
    • The individuals using these platforms includes everyone from kids to technologically unsavvy seniors.T-Dawg
    • I think there's gotta be someone looking out for the folks who aren't reading the 10 page disclaimers and who don't necessarily understand their implications.T-Dawg
    • Myself being one of them :)T-Dawg
    • Privacy is huge to to freedom but those who willingly choose to give it up probably don't deserve it. The question wether they have the freedom to act in adeathboy
    • destructive manner that may effect those around them... well that is a bit anti-vaxxer. a price we pay for society if we want to remain freedeathboy
    • but people should be more concerned since so many choose to be fed info. publicis bought epsilon who promises profiles based on over 70 data point of 250 milldeathboy
    • ion people. Such info can be weaponized by people who have far better understanding than those profiled of themselves. Whcih goes much farther than productsdeathboy
    • and consumerism. Larger goal being conditioning by ones in power. Breaking them up doesnt help but stall. Probably better let it be and see what happensdeathboy
    • might be a painful lesson. but afterwards far better for those who learned than have someone protect them, while fighting them the whole time.deathboy
    • The issue I have with the 'let it happen and people will learn' approach is that people don't necessarily learn or forget the past by the time the issue reappeaT-Dawg
    • Breaking the big boys up isn't necessarily the solution i'd go for, but it's currently the threat that the gov is using to make them act more seriously on privaT-Dawg
    • Yup. Cant say im right in they will learn. that is just one of those gut/principled gray areas. No one knows. leaning towards more freedom could be more harmdeathboy
    • depending on the audience. or vice versa. One of those areas you need to reflect upon that futurama bender god epsiodedeathboy
    • im down to fall in line with a leader to make a decision if i think he believed principally in one way and understood it was his best guess and had no lildeathboy
    • dick issues if it didnt pan out, learn from it and try a new approach. i cant stand double downing on bad policy and ppls egos involveddeathboy
    • by the way tdawg you are not that one dude i had like 200 side chats with? terrible with name but think it started with a d doc or something?deathboy
    • Possibly, not sure which exact one you're thinking of but we've gone down a few threads of discussions.T-Dawg
    • And I appreciate that even with a difference of opinions, we've gotten through it without finger pointing and name callingT-Dawg
    • well the whole point of discussion starts from a point of reference with room to grow.trying to understand others and error check oneselfdeathboy
    • comes down to name calling someone is not discussing properly and needs to sit at a childs tabledeathboy
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