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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by stainforth on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:21PM (#25663441)
Network effects as a emergent principle has been discovered to violate the promises of capitalist economics. We have a right to come together and set the limits and terms by which a few can extract from the many.
Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by netizen-9748 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:45PM (#25663724)
Why must there be extraction at all? Even trade seems like it would be better for the majority of parties involved, including having the effect of not having a bunch of pissed off people down the line.