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Re:Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes by sickcodebruh on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:06PM (#27963840)
Is "nobody is forcing you to have it on your phone nor are they forcing you to be part of it" really the standard that we want when judging whether to share our revulsion about a company or product? You're not wrong about that part, I'm just not sure what your point is.

It's no secret that social media in general stokes many of our worst impulses. Citizen strikes me as somewhat unique because it starts from such a negative place and then encourages us to feel worse. Facebook benefited from engagement resulting in political chaos but that's only one of the ways individuals can interact. Citizen can't even claim that weak defense. It's like the social media version of for-profit prisons: it claims to want safety but it benefits the most when we think we are unsafe.

Re:Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes by aiisahik on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:44PM (#27964411)
Hate to break it to you but "nobody is forcing you" is kinda the standard in the US from vaccines to social media to guns.

Everything is a choice here. There are plenty of countries out there which would have chosen to ban Citizen along with a whole long list of other even more idiotic things but this country is about freedom of choice even if that choice is bad for the greater community.

Re:Citizen pays New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes by atatatat on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:22AM (#27972784)
Nobody is forcing you to get your license plate scanned by some random with giant plate scanners on his trunk at the grocery store.