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> Data isn't free

The adtech industry made data and its processing not just free (as in more than covered by the ad revenue) but outright profitable.

This is frankly a one-in-a-lifetime gift to the government because we've not only built an unaccountable industrial-grade spying machine but the government doesn't even have to pay for it as it pays for itself and incentivizes its own expansion.




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