By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026If privacy is a property right - one that can be traded away - then Facebook's industrial-scale privacy invasions are actually fine, since you "traded" your privacy to Mark Zuckerberg in exchange for the privilege of talking to your friends. 6/ 1538
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Some self-styled critics of tech monopolists say that the answer to Facebook's privacy invasions is to force the company to pay for your privacy with *cash*, rather than services: www.wired.com/story/opinio... 7/wired.comAndrew Yang Wants You to Get Paid for Your Data. It Doesn't Add UpHe says social media companies should pay you for the data you produce. But loopholes abound, it's too expensive, and other plans like it have failed. 2383
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026This is ideological capture in its purest form: the "data dividend" that Facebook would owe you under this system amounts to a few dollars per year. For wealthy people, the sums would be trivial. 8/ 2391
A Simple Tailor @especiallythelies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026He and Mark Cuban are desperate to position themselves as the people’s billionaire 030
