Selling of user data should be illegal. Cross-site tracking should be illegal. These platforms have become weapons of mass influence. Kill the economic model.
I've procured some links you'll hate. :D It took Scientific American too many words to say: Yup, stupid people are more susceptible to fake news. And my god, do we have a lot of stupid people. That poll cannot be right. If it's correct, America might only barely achieve herd immunity after a working vaccine is developed, due to tens of millions refusing to vaccinate. Maybe I'll go tornado chasing today.
What, through regulation?!? Now you’re censoring my free speech and right to consume blatantly false information, which increasingly overlap with my misplaced sense of American exceptionalism!
Perhaps. Much of the world doesn’t allow for the purchase of most tissues and organs to prevent exploitation. The purchase of data could be exploitative, or done as a work-around. For example, an ISP could simply give a discount to customers that give their data.