Law in the Internet Society

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  As the marketplace becomes increasingly subscriber-based, consumers must be critical of whether any ease promoted by companies is real or simply a ploy to get you into their system, where they will recommend future services and goods to keep you interacting with the brand. And for those who hope to avoid the subscription-based mess in its entirety, signs are pointing to even more tech-based hardware companies pivoting to similar subscription-based models too. By pulling consumers in and keeping them connected to specific platforms, the subscription providers are taking away a fundamental cross-pollination aspect of an open, communicative society. The free thinker must be able to pull from a variety of sources to inform a well-balanced view of the world, and the separation and stratification of subscriptions go directly against this idea that is, in theory, central to a democratic society.
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