• z3rOR0ne
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    399 months ago

    We need you Lina Khan. We need you, but stronger, faster, better. Let’s fucking go.

  • Prox
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    559 months ago

    That’s literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.

    • Mellow
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      The new-ish Federal Trade Commission head has been making a push to work on quite a few projects for the past couple of years. They have a very small resources and man-power compared to the war chests of multibillion dollar companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google as a monopoly. This in my opinion is a good thing. I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar. I support her endeavors working for the interests of the majority of people and not those few with the most money.

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        I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

        What country do you live in?

        Because in the US, the government gives money to corpos. That’s how the entire regime works lol

        Politicians take donations sure but that’s not the government. That’s private regime whores living off corporate cash while handing out state aid Boeing intel and tech companies among many other parasites.

  • @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    Rule #1: anybody who can get you to give them your information of likes, dislikes just about anything will sell it to other people, or use it for their own sales to you.

    Rule #2: If anyone has any reason to make you accept terms and conditions and there’s any chance that they you may want to sue them in future, they’re going to slip in a binding arbitration clause unless it is legally difficult for them to do so.

    Wake up FTC it’s not just social media it’s deeply embedded everywhere in commerce and society and it needs to be addressed RFN.

  • @[email protected]
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    69 months ago

    Remember, when Western companies violate privacy that is okay.

    When non-Western companies do it, that’s bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        I agree. I was being very sarcastic and didn’t put the traditional /s.

        The US freaked out over TikTok harvesting private data yet barely shrugs at how US companies are routinely harvest private data and sell it.

  • @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    It is fine to have casual knowledge of or a hunch about something, but far better to have the research and analysis to prove it.

  • noodle (he/him)
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    709 months ago

    ITT: omg how other people don’t see what I, a very smart and superior person who browses technology communities, have known for years

    we should be celebrating that privacy issues are gaining more and more mainstream coverage.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      No one cares about this stuff but techies/Lemmy. Regular people don’t care, like at all. They know tech companies do this stuff but if convenience>privacy, most people take the former every time to make life easier. Data privacy is not a tangeable thing in most people’s minds.

      There would have to be some sort of cataslismic event to wake people up enough for people to do anything meaningful. I don’t know what that would be, but I hope someone figures that out sooner rather than later.

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        I don’t think some mass “waking up” event is going to occur, but every time another headline about it shows up, it gets more difficult to ignore or not care about it. and every time someone who’s on the fence about the issue will pay more attention to it, and perhaps use the offending platform less. baby steps.

        besides, I wouldn’t say people don’t care, they do when they get offered a choice: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-out-of-app-tracking-in-ios-14-5-analytics-find/

      • @[email protected]
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        I read this and ask “What is your intention with this post?” What is gained if everyone is this jaded?

        • @[email protected]
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          everytime I tell someone there are alternatives to using Google/Apple/etc their response is, “but it’s just so easy”. I guess you can call my view of that jaded, but people really don’t care? I mean I’m not trying to be defeatest at all, it’s just trying to accurately appraise people’s apathy to apply a proper resolution to the problem.

          The solution has to make it “easy” for people because that is what they expect of technology now.

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            Honestly I’m too apathetic to care if what you’re saying is accurate or not. I am asking what are you trying to accomplish by convincing apathetic people they’re apathetic?

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              Oh you can’t change apathy really. I was just suggesting if privacy friendly tech (ie: Linux) is to go mainstream, that it would have to be “easier” than what is currently out there to gain mainstream popularity.

              Desktop linux is almost there, but the general population mostly uses mobile devices now, and phone Linux seems to be a dying prospect.

              • @[email protected]
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                29 months ago

                Ahh, so by making Linux “easier” we’re preparing for that eventual opportunity (from a disaster) where the public goes looking for something better.