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How the fuck did we ever get to this point where data trading is not only accepted, it’s completely normalized now to the point where politicians argue about how much may be too much data.
Fuck. That. Shit.
How about data brokering be illegal altogether?
How about tracking being illegal?
That is how it should be. Fuck the abuse.


