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Oh, come on... it's everywhere in the news for several months now, because all of the Big Techs suddenly (!) want to do that.
We live in a techno feudalism, it's not a democracy, it's no longer Capitalism. It's Capitalism almost completely mediated through elite technocrats. The only freedom we have, the only potential for regaining control, is boycotting via massive, well organized, well understood, well conducted unsubscription programs, and campaigns. Lightening fast protest statements where we control who we fund, which services we use, and which we deny and defund by taking our usage data away (and their services away from us which takes discipline). Denying them data to sell, and profits/subscriptions.
This is the future politics we have to start discussing with others, the idea we have to spread, as it's currently the only way to have a say within this current state of techno feudalism.
If we don't we will end up in subscription model nations, living as slaves, with end user agreements, rather than human rights.