Well, to be honest performance has been spotty for me. Internet speeds took a significant hit on both my MacBook Pro and iPhone. Especially initial wait times for a page to actually start loading were bad. It also interferes with my work’s VPN
Yes to be clear the issue here is the Mobile UK lobbying group.
Really? Evidence? This seems more like just simple corporate greed focused on making people their products. People seem to keep pushing an anti government regulation agenda here. That's not what this is about. It's corporate greed, and we need government regulation (and apparently apple's innovative privacy feature) to keep them from messing with our privacy.
Companies should not have free speech. The should not have the same protections as people.
It's not just corporate greed. The government of the UK wants the country to top the league table in surveillance. And remember the ECJ cannot put the brakes on the government's authoritarian tendencies after Brexit (the EU 'red tape' the govenrment wants to cut are protections for workers, consumers, the environment, small investors, and civil liberties). Case in point with respect to online privacy: the snooper's charter. See https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/fundamental/mass-surveillance-snoopers-charter/.
Because companies already have more power than individuals in that they have access to greater funds. Corporate lobbying is one of the biggest faults with democracy right now IMO. I'd love to see all lobbying confined to office hours of legislators and confined official buildings, and recorded for the public to see who's saying what to their elected officials.
You have free speech, your company shouldn't. Whether you are the sole proprietor or CEO of a mega corp. Corporations aren't people and shouldn't have the rights afforded to people. They need to be regulated and controlled by the people. The individuals who work at or own the company are free to exercise their rights as individuals, but the corporation shouldn't have the same equal rights as they aren't people but simply means to produce products and services for the people. Giving them rights as individuals opens up a whole host of problems which we have seen in the US since the citizens united decision. Not the least of which is the increase in political power it gives to those with more money. Just because you have more money shouldn't give you more of a voice in governing. It also can shield individuals from their responsibility by hiding behind the corporation which is only able to be accountable financially as it is impossible to convict and imprison a corporation for crimes. It can be fined, but it can also declare bankruptcy and individuals go free.
How so? By making it harder to track people? OH WAIT, that's making the browsing experience better.
What commission? 30% of a $0 app is $0.
Exactly. This is just one of the problems with giving companies the same rights as individuals. Accountability. How do you hold a corporation accountable for crimes. If an individual would be imprisoned for 5 years and unable to work, do you shut down a company for 5 years and put it's assets in receivership? As for your point about groups pooling funds for political power... that's a problem. Money shouldn't be involved in politics at all. All political contributions should be banned and campaigns should be publicly funded. The ideas and policies should be what win the day, not how much funding a candidate has.
