Weed is fucking legal! (For real this time!)

@contracommando Yeah, sometimes I think it would be better to discharge legislative body and have no new laws getting passed. That's an experience of Russian, though. And somebody does have to correct things that have previously gotten wrong, so unfortunately that's not really a wise idea.

There is, however, too much interference from the government (and now a lot of companies) into private life of people. Laws need to be passed to protect people, including from all the profiling and data gathering. I would suggest increased taxations for any businesses that process, store or act as a broker of personal data of clients/users, and tax deductions for businesses that do absolutely no personal data collection or processing, and anti-oligopoly laws (similar to how anti-monopoly laws function) that demands every industry to have companies that do no data collection, and if such don't exist, splits apart the existing corporations to create such.

In short, collecting data should be costly affair. And since it serves as a way to generate income, it makes sense to have tax deductions for business who totally refrain from it, so they can be competitive. While all that extra income, on the contrary, could be a good way to pay government some money, and hopefully there is no way to dodge it. Want have business in our country but collect data on our citizens? Pay tax! And no, just because you are registered somewhere else, like Amazon that managed to pay ZERO dollars to US in tax some year (there was a link on Stallman's blog, don't feel like searching for it right now), shouldn't make you tax exempt. So, for example, since Amazon does collect data of US citizens, it must pay tax to US, period.

Maybe there is a way to make governments actually pass such kind of law, after all, the overall tax they get should increase even with tax deductions for some rare companies that qualify for "no people's data processing".