The Fight to Reclaim Your Data: The $500M Movement You Need to Know About | Frank McCourt, Jr.

Big Tech is watching. Companies like Google, Meta, and X (Twitter) track what you read
and watch, where you drive, and what you buy. Unless you live off the grid, most of this
is out of your control.
Frank McCourt, Jr., the executive chairman of McCourt Global and former LA Dodgers
owner, is putting up $500 million of his personal fortune to fight this invasive system
and make the internet better for everyone, especially children. This starts with
reclaiming our digital privacy.
Learn more by visiting Project Liberty and checking out McCourt’s new book with co-
author Michael Casey, Our Biggest Fight.
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Time stamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:50 - Project Liberty’s plan for a better internet
04:51 - Reclaiming your social graph
08:54 - How tech is stealing childhood
19:12 - The American Project
24:48 - Creating your own terms of use for your data
27:47 - Tech can still be profitable and for more people
31:13 - Fighting modern-day robber barons

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[@jawaharsolai4303]

Wow! While we all intuitively understood the perils of the current business models of the technology companies which makes money from selling our data, I couldn’t think how the system can change to a better model that benefits the humanity, the source of all data. So effectively this means the current technology companies would pay for the data they collect ( of course with all transparency to how it will use it) from the users ( maybe a royalty fee) which will become cost to the companies and we then have to pay to use the services ( like google maps etc) which is hitherto free. This makes sense. But needless to add here that this idea is nascent & will benefit from applying more minds to our existential crisis of our times. Thanks for this thoughtful interview.

[@stephenfstephenf]

This is great. Excellent ideas. I will get the book and visit your websites. What amazes me is that 5 hours after this has hit the Internet there are only 436 views and only 2 previous comments on this video. Also, after 12 days at Amazon, there are only 2 ratings...one 5 and one 4. Where is everyone?

[@MauldinEconomicsYouTube]

It makes you wonder, doesn't it...

[@danross4844]

What would be the alternate economic model for a social media user when selling our data is no longer the source of profit for these companies? It seems that paid subscription models or more "in-your-face" advertising would occur.

[@advocate1563]

Yes. But we've always had to pay for our freedom. If you don't buy the product you ARE te product.

[@Aptster1939]

YA KNOW? October 21, 2023 Remember when people used to intersperse their sentences with ‘like’ as in you know like that, ‘like’ I went to the store and ‘like’ there was no bread and then I went ‘like’ to the gas station and gas was so expensive ‘like’ too much you know? Well somehow ‘like’ his retreated into the past, and faded into obscurity, fallen to disuse. It has been replaced by a new word or two words. Those two words are ‘you know’. A great plethora of speakers use this lazy phrase to assume that the person they are, speaking to somehow, mysteriously intuits, unfathomably groks the meaning. grasps their content, intent, and thrust. Presenters of every dimension, comedians, talk show hosts, guests, podcast people all this ilk use this same crutch ‘you know’ this and ‘you know’ that. I propose that the next time you hear someone say ‘you know’ that you reply, “No I don’t know, I don’t understand, please embellish, kindly explain please clarify exactly what you were trying to tell me. I am not a mind reader and the words you speak don’t necessarily lead me to the correct conclusion that I have fully grasped what you’re trying to convey. Understand? Capeesh?, Comprendo? My goodness even that extremely eloquent Rachel Maddow says ‘you know’. To accompany her there is Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers. They presumptively, confidently, assuredly assume that ‘you know’ will accomplish the understanding or the completion of their sentence. It won’t. So, all you a great speaker of the world, renounce delete, discontinue this lazy phrase! And, furthermore, it is anyway, not anyways!!!

[@47allenr]

What is this doing among the comments on the McCourt video presented by Mauldin Economics?

[@MauldinEconomicsYouTube]

Great question!