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Not exactly. When you agreed to the terms and conditions while signing up for your ISP, you gave them permission. They spell out exactly what they are collecting, who they will be sharing it with, who they must turn it over to (ie the Government).
It is not stealing if you gave permission.
Advertising is one thing. Specifically being able to tailor my feed based on internet searches does two things...1-it shows it is already appending which makes 2-the uproar over the latest congressional vote a tempest in a teapot.
A libertarian? You should remove that from your Lean, it's shown to be false.
The person who would give up all their privacy freedoms, all of it, so he can have free facebook. There you go people, the modern Libertarian, wanting Big Brother because they like their toys!
Newsflash jonny5, FB makes money off what? Off our information.
Who owns that information before you get on facebook? You do. So FB makes a fortune off your information, and you get a free web page?
Tell me you didn't sell yourself for that bargain price.
If thats all that was happening...Id say swell. Its just really hard to trust that thats all that is happening.And again, its a good thing. Its how you get so much 'free' stuff. It allows sites to charge more for ads, which allows them to give you more free stuff.
Libertarianism is about maximizing free WILL. And indeed, as a libertarian I think all should be free to give their information away to anyone they CHOOSE to.
lol, apparently people are free to give away their sense of reason as well.
If thats all that was happening...Id say swell. Its just really hard to trust that thats all that is happening.
You cannot honestly think Congress is going to do this...
The problem is that they can change those terms and conditions to whatever they want now, and since ISPs often function as the only game in town, we have no choice.
If the market did its job, we'd have a choice between lower-cost, sell our information for profit service; and higher-cost private service. And the higher-cost wouldn't be that much higher because of competition.
But we all know that won't happen because of the barriers to entry, so the government has to address this issue, they're the only ones who can.
Love Rosie McCaffrey's. My mechanic is walking distance from there.
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