It’s perhaps the great scam of the Internet age: “Get paid to surf the web!” Not surprisingly, something for (virtually) nothing has trouble passing the market test.
Yet some policy wonks think they can nudge Big Tech to make this fantasy a reality. They want Amazon, Facebook, Google and other web firms to pay us for our personal browsing info that they collect and use. Some advocates want to somehow devise a micropayments system , others would have these tech giants finance . . . wait for it . . . a universal basic income. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks […]
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