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by astura
2858 days ago
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Hacker News be like: "Speech should be free and unlimited!!!.... Well, unless the topic of the speech is me, then I should be able to control 100% what what other people are saying about me, of course." How you gonna sue someone for saying things about you that are true? That's not a thing (for good reason). Would you also sue a friend if you borrowed money from them and didn't pay it back and they warned others not to lend to you? Imagine how much a judge would laugh if you showed up to court saying "I didn't get a mortgage because I have a history of not paying my bills, I deserve compensation." Nonsensical. That's ignoring the fact that you actually consent to data sharing as a condition of obtaining credit products. And that's a reasonable condition with a business justification. In the US it's politically infeasible to have any sort of government agency to collect this information, so it falls on the shoulders of private companies. The data Equifax has on me is the exact opposite of "damaging." Because of data sharing I'm eligible for a broad range of credit products that I have gotten tens of thousands of dollars in value from. On top of that the information they collect about me allows me to pay a very small premium for car and home owner's insurance. |
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This isn't a real argument unless you can show that the one person you're actually responding to has held both these positions. This is just a forum where a bunch of people opine; it's not a political party with a documented set of beliefs.