Because it’s not free… if you are giving them your data then it is not costing you nothing. It’s costing you your data and your data is extremely valuable. Stop and think about why all these companies are investing so much money and resources into all this data. And actually fucking think about it. Is its value solely in selling you another cheeseburger or another brand of toothpaste? Look at Cambridge Analytica, and look at it as a proof of concept. There’s its fucking value.
You’ve decided not to care about your privacy and data, but many people care about it and don’t want to contribute to that machine that it fuels; the influence and control that it gives these multi-billion dollar corporations.
Just own it, say, “I don’t care if I give my data and sell others’ data to corporations that use it to benefit the profit motivated interests of a few at the net-negative cost to the rest of society,” and be done with it. You don’t want to say it because you don’t want to be that person, and therein lies your insecurity… because you are that person.
It didn’t diss it? They literally put quotes around the word free. Man, I can’t take you seriously.
Because it’s not free… if you are giving them your data then it is not costing you nothing. It’s costing you your data and your data is extremely valuable. Stop and think about why all these companies are investing so much money and resources into all this data. And actually fucking think about it. Is its value solely in selling you another cheeseburger or another brand of toothpaste? Look at Cambridge Analytica, and look at it as a proof of concept. There’s its fucking value.
You’ve decided not to care about your privacy and data, but many people care about it and don’t want to contribute to that machine that it fuels; the influence and control that it gives these multi-billion dollar corporations.
Just own it, say, “I don’t care if I give my data and sell others’ data to corporations that use it to benefit the profit motivated interests of a few at the net-negative cost to the rest of society,” and be done with it. You don’t want to say it because you don’t want to be that person, and therein lies your insecurity… because you are that person.