California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a law Sunday that would have expanded the state’s privacy protections to ban the sales of online users’ sensitive information, breaking with a group of states that have prohibited the practice.
This isn’t necessary. All you need is to protect people from fraud.
If Amazon tells you that it will sell your data you are completely free to just not use Amazon. If enough people choose not to use Amazon, Amazon will wonder why. If they do any semblance of at all good investigating they will find out it’s because those prior customers were against having their data sold and they will stop selling data.
The government only needs to come in to make sure Amazon is actually telling you it will sell your data, because not doing so is fraud, and the government should protect the innocent against fraud.
As an adult, I don’t need big daddy government telling businesses what they can sell. I only need to understand the situation I’m being presented in its entirety so that I can make my own decisions. It’s my consent, not the government’s.
Some days my PTSD is bad and my brain just feels… Slow. Like I’m stuck in molasses up there. Work feels harder. Things take longer to click. Honestly, when I feel like that, sometimes I feel a bit of imposter syndrome; a lot of things in my life rely on my intelligence, and I feel like I just don’t belong. I’m so grateful to people like you reminding me, though, that even through brain damage, I’m still not the stupidest person in the room ❤
That account is less than 10 days old and I already have them tagged as a rightoid. Every thread they’re in, they’re dropping these inane neoliberal/pro-capital takes.
Who wants to place bets on their account disappearing after the election?
This isn’t necessary. All you need is to protect people from fraud.
If Amazon tells you that it will sell your data you are completely free to just not use Amazon. If enough people choose not to use Amazon, Amazon will wonder why. If they do any semblance of at all good investigating they will find out it’s because those prior customers were against having their data sold and they will stop selling data.
The government only needs to come in to make sure Amazon is actually telling you it will sell your data, because not doing so is fraud, and the government should protect the innocent against fraud.
As an adult, I don’t need big daddy government telling businesses what they can sell. I only need to understand the situation I’m being presented in its entirety so that I can make my own decisions. It’s my consent, not the government’s.
Some days my PTSD is bad and my brain just feels… Slow. Like I’m stuck in molasses up there. Work feels harder. Things take longer to click. Honestly, when I feel like that, sometimes I feel a bit of imposter syndrome; a lot of things in my life rely on my intelligence, and I feel like I just don’t belong. I’m so grateful to people like you reminding me, though, that even through brain damage, I’m still not the stupidest person in the room ❤
That account is less than 10 days old and I already have them tagged as a rightoid. Every thread they’re in, they’re dropping these inane neoliberal/pro-capital takes.
Who wants to place bets on their account disappearing after the election?
Or at least when the right Russian data center gets cratered. :3
GodDAMN claps
Classic hegemonist nonsense.