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Turns out, I am the product.

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Reinhart Previano Koentjoro (@reinhart)

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Some of you came here to advocate for the social justice in the cyberspace. Those of you said that the tech products I and others use each day are unethical and evil, converting their users to become “useds”.

*We call them 'useds' rather than 'users' because Facebook is using them, not vice versa.

Richard Stallman

I used to understand some of your beliefs during my early days with Mozilla, including one of the famous quotes of the Internet that clearly says:

If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.

Various Authors (incl. Andrew Lewis)

Turns out, I never paid anything to prepare for my birth, nor I paid for my tuition fees from kindergarten to college except one as an apology. Does that now qualify me as a product even without mentioning anything about GAFAM?

Again, I do neither have my personal desire nor my legal consent to be born on Earth—where my spiritual self would definitely prefers to stay in the Kingdom of God in heavens instead of here.

The Holy Bible, who describes who I am, also defines myself as nothing more than products and commodities: either as the salt and light of the world, a healthy seed and tree that grows the fruits of the Holy Spirit, a dirty scarlet piece of cloth who was washed away to become as white as the snow, and as a humble plant that would grow into nutritious grains of wheat, instead of the strikingly poisonous tare or darnel.

So that really means I already am the Product. Even before the TV, media, and tech industries came all along and influenced me as a whole. And as a Product, I shall embrace my way as how the Product embraces itself. It’s just a big irony for those who conspire about these without realizing that they, too, are already destined to become products since their own birth.

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