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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by cmcd on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:42PM (#21586978)
Pretty extreme to compare FaceBook to indentured servitude, everyone is free to leave FaceBook at any time and we know up front what their model is.
Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by riversflow on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:54PM (#21587120)
Seems apt to me. Indentured servitude actually seemed reasonable to a lot of people looking to move, you got expensive passage on a ship in exchange for working for a set length of time. Facebook is a platform for social manipulation, in a few hundred years I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we see that social manipulation as a morally intolerable evil. The sort of tracking/aggregating they do is a violation of privacy as extreme as indentured service is on free will.
Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by e_proxus on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:44AM (#21592922)
An analogy is not a comparison. I think an analogy here was made to reinforce the point made, not to in any way claim that Facebook somehow deals with indentured servitude.