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▲ chzblck 6 hours ago

Bold idea but too much money on the other side to let this gain traction

▲Nevermark 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are saying exactly, and I mean exactly, what they would want.

Dismissing an avenue of progress outright is to be defeatist or to sow defeat.

AI is going to use all this information against us. Because AI alignment can’t be better than people and corporations deploying the AI.

Lack of privacy is now a gaping security hole, being continually exploited on all our devices, across most sites on the internet.

[EDIT: And the leverage that information enables is being auctioned off to manipulators who we are exposed to continuously. This is just the beginning.]

We need to plug this security hole now, before power centralizes further and we can’t.

▲chzblck 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Google, TTD, Applovin, Magnite, Roku, Freewheel, + 100 more adtech and martech companies.

Lets add Facebook, twitter, openai, claude + all the others.

then lets add Flock, Palantir.

Do you honestly think the lobbying from them would be more or less if this bill gained any traction?

▲Nevermark 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Of course they are going to resist. That is the terrain.

That doesn’t change the critical need to make progress.

Surrendering power, even when apparently outgunned, is a far more insidious enemy than opposition.

▲rexpop 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Amen! And, in fact, the harder they fight, the harder our resolve.

▲dotancohen an hour ago | parent [-]

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▲JumpCrisscross 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Do you honestly think the lobbying from them would be more or less if this bill gained any traction?

Small communities are thwarting these companies’ datacenter buildouts. The difference is they show up. Defeating privacy in tech is easy because there is no functional opposition.

▲JumpCrisscross 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> too much money on the other side to let this gain traction

This view is unfortunately common among regular privacy advocates. That makes them politically useless.

To have a hope, this bill needs to target support outside tech, where civic laziness and nihilism are normalized. I’m not seeing any indication of that strategy here.