By this same logic I take it you’d be ok with the day care saying “you can pay with your money or we can use your kid for manual labor”?
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tal@lemmy.today 8 months agoI mean, it’s a service. You can pay for it with your money, or pay with your data. I’d prefer the former, myself. But either way, it’s not going to be free.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 months ago
fxdave@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I would prefer paying for it with my taxes.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Like, you want Instagram to get some kind of government subsidy? Why? And what about people who don’t want to use it? I mean, I don’t use Instagram.
fxdave@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I would imagine it as lemmy. It would be a free, ethical software which is indirectly funded by the government. Everybody uses facebook so that’s a good reason to turn it into a public property. We could make it without anti-features. Made for people, not for profit.