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Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects.

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

If you want to make Google pay for a publicly available good, tax them accordingly.

Tax them where? In the US? But a lot of the content they scrape would be European. So does EU get to tax them for content scraped from EU users and US for content scraped from US users? Actually, how DO we define the locality of online content? By host server? Site owning company/person's legal location? Content poster's location?

Much as I'd love to see Google pay more taxes, I'm not sure how this would play out.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was with the post until the taxes. Came out of nowhere

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    It did not come out of nowhere, it's right in there: I mentioned taxes because using a public good/service is only freeloading (like people imply with google scraping public data or Elon when he talks about data pillaging) if you don't pay for its upkeep.

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