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> And honestly why are we just accepting that these organizations sitting on infinitely growing wealth can use it to incentivize us to give us all their data for convenience and otherwise worry-free management of it, and then just lock you out one day based on bad algorithms, and offer next to no customer support to resolve it because they don't want to spend a tiny fraction of their operation budget on a department for that?

We aren't. That's why we tell people not to trust a company with their data.

That's like complaining people telling you to avoid a super cheap space heater are elitist and unsympathetic to those with less money, while at the same time decrying that everyone accepts that the manufacturer gets away with selling a space heater that occasionally burns your house down.



My point is this is a problem of the of the multi-trillion-dollar corporations, and I think they should be in charge of solving it. Not for every one of the ~6 billion people who use the internet to solve for themselves through preemptive measures and self-inflicted inconvenience.

Supposedly our votes are important, and regulation is not impossible.


> I think they should be in charge of solving it.

They are. Hence their freedom to choose not to.




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