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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by thot_experiment on Sunday November 14, 2021 @01:12PM (#29219133)
The actual harm? If you steal a dollar from everyone what's the harm, it's just a dollar? Except now you have 7 billion dollars and you can do a bunch of bullshit with it. Except in this case companies are stealing personal agency and using it to create reality.

Not only that but that cache of power, it's not available to you but it's probably available to rich people and governments, further exacerbating power divides. The power of information is insidious and grows as you gain more of it.

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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by avalys on Sunday November 14, 2021 @01:15PM (#29219147)
> Except in this case companies are stealing personal agency and using it to create reality.

What does this mean?

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Re:Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than ... by thot_experiment on Sunday November 14, 2021 @01:35PM (#29219322)
By understanding behaviors and patterns on a large scale you can become better at manipulating on a large scale. In giving up privacy you allow yourself to be more effectively manipulated (giving up your agency) and the entities that understand the broader patterns can now use those patterns for to create large structures in our world (creating reality).
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