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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems like forcing liability would be more successful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More successful or more beneficial?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Forcing the company to be liable for the data they collect would be more likely to stop them from doing it than trying to outlaw them collecting it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No it wouldn't because poor people can trivially be kept out of court all kinds of ways from binding arbitration to half assed enforcement. As a rule if you want someone to NOT do something you have to tell them they can't do it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No it wouldn’t because elected officials don’t represent poor people

But we’re talking about buying new BMWs anyway. Your logic was just too stupid to not laugh at

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is there is no reason to suspect that a lucrative strategy doesn't spread to other manufacturers and indeed segments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And it will be long established before it effects the poor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

So your previous argument was nonsense