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Crowdsourced data is not individually reliable and is already accounting for invalid and incorrect submissions. We can have our cake and eat it too.

The ‘us vs them’ mindset comes from ‘then’ determining what is acceptable for ‘us’ to do purely because it’s good for ‘them’.

If I want to set my location to somewhere I am not, and the only reason I can’t is corporate interests, then a battleground has been drawn up by those interests, not me.




What I am trying to say is that there is no strict difference between "user interests" and "corporate interests".

Companies in general don't want reliable data for the fun of it; they want it in order to provide services that users want.




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