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> This is the same argument as “If you don’t like the way they collect data, why don’t you stop using an iPhone/GMail/Social Media”. Reasonable legislation eventually notice that this extreme form of libertarianism can hurt people, because of the imbalance of the negotiating power. Note that car manufacturers must install seat belts; they don’t get to say “if you think our car is unsafe, just buy another”.

Too much power in too few hands leaves no alternative.

Seems the colleges that don’t engage in this practice could run ads “we aren’t a jail” and shame the market into a correction?



That’s just going to stop Indian parents from sending their kids there.




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