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Seems like I wont be able to even own tbe content I create (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought of something that maybe gets this across. Think about roads. We all pay for them with taxes. Companies use these roads for free to make a profit. EG Amazon runs delivery vehicles on public roads.

The (center-)left take on that is: "You didn't build that." It can be an argument for progressive taxation and even a wealth tax.

Then there's people who say that we should privatize all the roads. Let Amazon pay a toll for using those roads. Is it clear that this is a conservative policy?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I see what you're getting at, but that's a flawed analogy.

Firstly, public roads are paid for collectively through taxes but everyone can benefit from them, not just large multinational corporations. That's not currently how user data is used in the context we are discussing, since the users themselves do not benefit materially from the data they produce.

A more accurate use of a road analogy would be to say that, at the moment, the users build the roads themselves (generate their data), and the private companies say to the users "Thanks very much for building the roads, we're now going to charge anyone who wants to use them and keep 100%. Oh, and you have no ownership rights, so we can restrict access to these roads as we see fit."