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This reminds me of when people want to "reverse financialization" or "get rid of the shareholder value model." How are you going to reverse an idea and what are you going to replace it with?



>How are you going to reverse an idea...

In this case, make mass data collection and targeted advertising illegal.

>... and what are you going to replace it with?

The model(s) we had before - generalized advertising based on who advertisers believe the broader audience that watches X show or views Y website is.


Making "mass data collection" illegal seems pretty fraught. I doubt that anybody would want that in its literal form. I'm not sure anyone is too interested in nuking our tech sector either but maybe I'm wrong about that part.




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