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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by rojobuffalo on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:55PM (#23604259)
BS. paying for internet products with personal data is nothing like a financial transaction at a store. money is a uniform unit; personal data is not that.

Those of us who are well-aware of data harvesting still forget about it all the time; it isn't at the forefront of our attention when we're shopping on Amazon or watching videos on Youtube. at a store you pull money out of your wallet, all the elements of the exchange are at the top of your attention, and when it's over it's over.

data collection is constant, has far-reaching effects on the future, and we have no intuition about the manipulation we're opening ourselves up to.

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by qeternity on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:25PM (#23606917)
What did I say that was BS? Your entire comment is completely orthogonal to mine.
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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by rojobuffalo on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:47PM (#23607205)
i don't mean "BS" with venom aimed at you. but you equated a cash transaction at a store to data commodification by internet companies.

data commodification is very materially different from exchanging a currency for a physical good; and i think it's wrong to lose that distinction with a metaphor that's too simplistic.

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by cscurmudgeon on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:29PM (#23607663)
> i think it's wrong to lose that distinction with a metaphor that's too simplistic

I see your point but we are commenting on an article that is talking about "data dividends" :)

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