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minus-square@phoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish54•edit-23 months agoAmerica will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts. Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.
minus-square@GregoryTheGreat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months agoI thought they were $10,000
minus-square@1984linkEnglish11•edit-23 months agoNaah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.
minus-square@null@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoI don’t think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer. I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.
America will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts.
Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.
I thought they were $10,000
Foil Hat Club FTW!
Naah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.
I don’t think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer.
I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.
Aha… Didn’t get that. Thanks. :)