1y ago

Patreon: Blocking platforms from sharing user video data is unconstitutional

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Ah, so Patreon is the next company to implode. We're on quite the roll with tech companies being massively dumb.
Patreon: We already sell every minuscule scrap of data we can glean from our users, so preventing us from selling info about the videos they watch, like, violates our free speech, man.
policymakers on both sides of the aisle agreed that First Amendment protections ought to safeguard the privacy of people's viewing habits, or else risk chilling their speech by altering their viewing habits.
Oh, that's a clever take.
They aren't wrong that this law isn't fit for modern times, but not in the way they mean. It needs to be e expanded into a GDPR type thing.
- The neoliberal ideology that the GDPR is based on is catastrophic. There's some necessary stuff in there, but the whole general approach to the problem is disastrous.
  To me, it's evidence that the demise of the traditional left isn't just bad for workers but everyone.
  
  neoliberal ideology that the GDPR is based on is catastrophic
  Could you expand on that?
  
  Neoliberalism has always been conservatism with more tact. Neoliberals pretend to be a bit progressive to attract support, but neoliberalism is not progressive at all. It is profit-driven and nothing else. Neoliberalism serves corporations, not people.
  
  Not sure we are talking about the same thing? https://gdpr-info.eu/

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