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Most of us: I lock my doors and might have a gun just in case, but I recognize the value and role of laws. In the real world we have to accept that we need to defend ourselves, and also act collectively through politics and law to protect each other.

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And yet anyone who says crime is not a problem worth fixing because we have guns will be laughed out of the room.

And that's despite crime being a very hard problem to fix. The privacy problem we're talking about here is actually trivially fixable with legislation alone.

Actual most of us: I let Google and Facebook rummage through my underwear and dick pics in exchange for 50 cents worth of free server usage a month. I also stare at hours of advertising a week to get free TV.

I won't deny that FB has a huge userbase, but no, that's still not most of us. In addition, broadcast tv isn't shitting the bed because people aren't tired of the deal you've described; they're just cutting the cord.

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