Re:The Open Web Is Dying
by loup-vaillant on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:40PM
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Choice one: get spied on by Google through your phone, analytics, gmail, You tube… Get spied on by Facebook. Carry a tracker everywhere you go.
Choice two: No longer answer the phone in a timely manner. Don't follow up on friends. Shut yourself from many social circles. In other words, stop being a first class citizen.
There was a time where slaves were considered sub-human because they chose life over freedom. They had a choice, and they chose to be beasts.
There's a difference of degree, but but it operate under the same principle: when you have two option, one of which is unacceptable, you don't really have a choice.
Choice two: No longer answer the phone in a timely manner. Don't follow up on friends. Shut yourself from many social circles. In other words, stop being a first class citizen.
There was a time where slaves were considered sub-human because they chose life over freedom. They had a choice, and they chose to be beasts.
There's a difference of degree, but but it operate under the same principle: when you have two option, one of which is unacceptable, you don't really have a choice.