09-27-2024, 11:56 PM
This post was last modified 09-27-2024, 11:57 PM by Maxmars.
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This is never given as much attention as I would like.
The idea that we as 'users' of internet 'services' are somehow automatically 'fair game' insofar as monetizing our identities seems to me an abuse.
Somehow the mentality that supports the selling of user information makes a barter where no offer of trade was actually agreed to by the user.
Nowadays the multipage litany of user 'agreements' we are legally leveraged into accepting actually codifies the abuse and indemnifies the abusers.
It encourages me that Europe's approach to personal sovereignty in these matters is more sensitive to the fact that commerce isn't a 'ruling force,' whereas here in the States, commerce seems to be treated as a god.
The idea that we as 'users' of internet 'services' are somehow automatically 'fair game' insofar as monetizing our identities seems to me an abuse.
Somehow the mentality that supports the selling of user information makes a barter where no offer of trade was actually agreed to by the user.
Nowadays the multipage litany of user 'agreements' we are legally leveraged into accepting actually codifies the abuse and indemnifies the abusers.
It encourages me that Europe's approach to personal sovereignty in these matters is more sensitive to the fact that commerce isn't a 'ruling force,' whereas here in the States, commerce seems to be treated as a god.
