Terms-and-conditions capitalism, where regulatory burden is shifted to consumers to evaluate complex privacy policies and cookie choices, has failed to prevent surveillance and instead created an unlivable regulatory burden on users.

normativepending

Speaker

Ezra Klein

Evidence Quote

I call this terms and conditions capitalism, where you just move the burden onto the the the consumer... given me the opportunity to individually decide which of the 303 cookies on every website I visit might be good and might be bad.

Source

We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

My Notes

Loading notes...