> "Balkanization" is the wrong way to view this.

It's a perfectly valid way to view it. Forest fire might be another valid way to view it, but is different. Both are equally valid, and represent different views of what ideal is.

> Tax and regulate it. It's what Europe does.

I am European. Nice try though.

> We need to stretch those muscles and get back into the habit of doing it.

I don't disagree. Start there then. Make it so that tracking me incurs such a heavy penalty payable to me personally that it is not worthwhile. Then go after the distribution mechanisms that allow someone to live a relatively tracking-free life without having to be an uber-nerd to make it reality.

> Mobile computing belongs to all of us.

There are plenty of platforms. What you are saying is it belongs to the people who want it to be a certain way with particular negative outcomes for many people. I want it to be a different way with negative outcomes that affect me less.