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Re: EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Tue Mar 28 18:51:48 2017

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From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:51:43 -0700
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On 3/28/17 12:53, Mel Beckman wrote:
> Quoting an Alexa spokesperson:
>
> "We don't think we did anything wrong," Alexa Chief Executive Brewster Kahle said. "But instead of going all the way through the legal process, we thought this was the easiest way to go on with our business."
>
> ------
>
> That capsulized the problem perfectly: providers don't get that they're doing anything wrong when they sell user's personal usage data.



Has there ever been a real survey that asks people where they think 
Google gets the money to support things like Gmail for "free"?

~Seth

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