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Companies that obtain and sell your user information should have to pay you royalties. Agree or disagree? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it's already been discussed!)

Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?

Personally, I'm getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It's been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.

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

I'm not saying Google shouldn't get paid. I'm saying that there are standard Internet services that are used widely enough that they could be bundled with what we already pay. We pay enough already to have those basic services included.

So we pay the ISP, the ISP pays the service provider, and the service provider pays the content creator. We pay enough to the ISPs that we shouldn't have to pay extra for these basic services.

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

How many people would you estimate use the internet? I'm paying $100 per month per person on my household. If you multiply $100 per month times the number of people who use the internet, I'm sure you have enough for servers, infrastructure, programmers, and plenty left over for content creators.

Sally and I work for the same company. The company pays both of us. The customer pays the company. If the customer already pays the company, should they have to pay Sally extra for her involvement?