Users have paid for platform transparency with their own data

Evidence

Platforms should make a radical commitment to turning the data they already have back to me in a legible and actionable form, everything they could tell me contextually about why a post is there and how I should assess it. We have already paid for this transparency, with our data. — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 609

Categorization

• SEED: Potential article: data subjects as paying customers who have already purchased a transparency they never receive.
• XREF: connects to: Quality-content rules extract unpaid user labor benefiting platforms — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 211; Platform profit comes from commodifying user data by-products rather than selling ads — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 40; Platforms extract data as a form of unpaid payment from users — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 128 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Platforms extract data as a form of unpaid payment from users #corroborates (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 128
• Platform profit comes from commodifying user data by-products rather than selling ads #expands (0.80) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 40
• Facebook’s Free Basics captured data from already-connected users rather than bridging the divide #exemplifies (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 316
• Free hardware and internet access were traded for personal data and tracking rights #exemplifies (0.78) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 877
• Free digital tools are false generosity masking data exploitation #expands (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 536