[pp.int.general] controversial survey from google institute

[Richard Stallman]

    Once you realize those risks, or implications, it is up to you as a user to
    decide whether you want to use the services those two companies offer, and
    give up part of your privacy as the price for it or not. It is not up to
    political parties (or governments, for that matter) to tell citizens that
    they can or can't do that.

As a general principle, this must be rejected.  We cannot allow
companies to offer any deal they wish to offer, because they would
abuse people that way.  There are thousands of laws and regulations
that restrict what deals companies can offer, and it would be
disastrous to eliminate them.

A particular regulation might be unnecessary or even harmful,
but this general argument doesn't even address that question.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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