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Sugar, obesity, Spyware


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this article was in the NYTimes today feb 12   and other outlets:

 

invasive spyware old targets

 

the link above does not come up as a link it seems

 

if intereted google it.

 

Big Sugar seems to be using commercial spyware to advance its goals

 

a bit chilling Id say.

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Here's the link.

 

The key word in the original post is "seems." The culprit also could be a government agency in Mexico -- or even elsewhere.

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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A thorny issue, this.

 

I'm as against obesity as the next guy, but I don't want to pay for his diet  (which ain't gonna work anyway) with your soda.  I still see sugar taxes as a money grab dressed up as a public health issue.

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I think where you stand on the obesity/taxation or regulation of sugar consumption issues is irrelevant. This is very disturbing news and a horrifying threat against free expression. I think based on the current research (which changes day to day), we can all agree that eating too much refined sugar is a bad thing, but without action, who will become the next targets of such unethical and shocking tactics? Will I? Will you? *shiver*

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