Is this guy seriously arguing that Big Data is a non-issue that no one should care about when it was just involved in very prominent election manipulation? Like, his whole argument appears to be that we’ve been worse off in the past so we’d better apply absolutely no oversight or scrutiny into these tech companies—or golly we might imperil our chance at getting more cat pictures from aunt Maggie on Facebook. Could you imagine if these Golden Cornerstones of modern civilization became slightly restricted or -gasp- not free anymore? I mean, they’re free so they obviously just want what’s best for you. You’re such a populist to sneer at such a fine capitalist Gift. I mean, you did even know about all that data being collected about you a few years back so obviously it can’t be important.