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It would also be defensible if users had access to the data being collected on them – to be able to turn the tracking on and off, to delete data they don\u2019t want or isn\u2019t theirs. But it\u2019s not being made that way – it\u2019s being constructed to operate secretively, with no regard to our wishes or well being.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s basically predatory. If it\u2019s one thing we don\u2019t need, it\u2019s another way for people to prey upon each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust how do they expect the online world to pay for itself?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n How about using some progressive corporate taxes (Exxon\u2019s consecutive record profits anyone?) to subsidize websites instead of war? Plenty of untapped Billion$ there each quarter.<\/p>\n Another funding source could be similar to how the TV cable companies were required to provide public access channels and fully equipped stations to towns that had no airwave TV access.<\/p>\n If the web site or service can be deemed an asset to the public, it would be a viable choice for funding as a public service.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It would be one thing if this tracking was being done for scientific purposes.. or social research, even some sort of altruism. But it\u2019s being done for the sake of profit and illegal authoritarian spying. It would also be defensible if users had access to the data being collected on them – to be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}