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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by Proven on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:46AM (#24389268)
Do you mean why can the government force enterprises to delete data they own due to opt-out requests?

It's a mystery to me.

Most HN commenters constantly whine how "data wants to be free" (no IP, no patents, no copyrights...), but when it comes to their own data they act like crony capitalilsts of the worst order and want to enlist the State to help them ensure exclusive, monopolistic rights to that data.

Make up your mind, busybodies!

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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by KineticLensman on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:13AM (#24390074)
Just because both of these views are expressed on HN doesn't mean that a majority of individual HN'ers hold them both simultaneously.
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Re:Data Broker Opt-Out List by eecc on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:49AM (#24389765)
That’s a wild wild misrepresentation of the meaning of the word “data” and the purpose of the slogan.

This “bend your mind”, “drink your own medicine now” wittiness borrowed by the postmodernist crowd is the essence of current alt-right rhetoric.

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