There are litigious people even here, though. Someone who has an axe to grind for whatever reason can keep annoying the DPA until they do go after you.
it seems like your issue is more with the inefficiency of the various algorithms rather than the use of data per se. And you re right, e.g. right now my supposedly AI youtube is full of the same type of videos.
> seems unfair they don't get a cut
This may ring true on the surface, but people always make money out of other people, by definition. Compensation would not work, it would be like buying a pair of shoes and then expecting to get a partial refund. One issue however is that users in this case do not have a mechanism to affect the price personalized ads so in total it seems unfair.
> and Nazi Germany,
I think you mean cold war germany. in any case it is interesting how the latest EU law completely ignores that aspect of privacy.
> a federal agent followed you a
Good point, being tracked does feel like you re being followed by an annoying salesperson. This IMHO is more annoying than the gathering of private data takes place on the internet. Privacy is not the default mode of life, in fact there are few places where one goes to when he wants to be private. Most of life involves interaction with other people and nonprivacy. One could even claim that this kind of privacy is not violated with things like ad tracking, as it happens behind screens, in safety and with relative control from the user. Of course there need to be limits to when and where this information can be gathered.
must be liberating how easy it is to be racist/troll etc under your real name in Youtube, because everybody else is doing it. Real name, fake name, pseudonymous or completely anonymous, it seems it doesn't matter - herd behaviour washes away everything.
This seems like it could be good as an ephemeral pastebin/image/video sharing with a small group.
off topic, I wish one of these peer-to-peer schemes caught on, if only because it will incentivize people to buy a desktop computer which will serve as network node. There's so many interesting things that can be done if people can be convinced that they are part of the network and not just "tablet users".
I wonder if anyone is trying to build home routers that double as ipfs/torrent nodes.
i m talking about inequality in the sexual marketplace. if you re talking about equality of rights then i dont follow how "suddenly there's fewer people they can feel superior to"
How is society more egalitarian? Old-world monogamous societies were egalitarian, today you have sexual inequality which leads to online movements like these.
To quote Houellebecq:
> “It's a fact...that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society.”