Ask HN: On what grounds would a device that treats you as its slave be illegal?

Re:Ask HN: On what grounds would a device that treats you as... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:19PM (#24633120)

The device wouldn't live long enough for the question of legality to come up.

You don't deal with it by law. You deal with it by refusing to be treated like that - by physically destroying the device, if needed.

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Re:Ask HN: On what grounds would a device that treats you as... by logicallee on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @06:00PM (#24633538)

You're saying nobody would put up with it. But is that really true? If your TV got an update that made you wait 30 seconds as a way of punishing you, you would literally destroy it? (Rather than just put up with the punishment?)

I think I would probably just put up with the 30 second punishment. But how would you legislate against it?

What law would it violate?

Youtube shows me the same ads hundreds of times (such as etoro ad). I didn't hate the ad to begin with but now I can only consider it a form of punishment to try to get me to sign up for youtube red. If it were normal genuine advertising there would be a rotation of advertisers. Nobody benefits from me having to see the same ad hundreds or even thousands of times.

What if a TV applied this to other product categories, things you bring into your home?

Where is the line?

By the way do you boycott youtube? Or just put up with the ads?

I don't think you smashed youtube when they started forcing ads on you.

So where is the line?

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