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Originally Posted by Xenophon
we can immediately identify exactly who's reading those dangerous free-thinking/right-wing/left-wing/communist/terrorist/socialist/pro-union/anti-union/conservative/liberal books and articles (I'll call them XXX books hereafter). That'll make it really easy to put them up against the wall after the revolution!
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Don't you think that the NSA, FBI, Jack Bauer CTU whatever already know pretty well what everyone is doing online the way things are today? And don't you think that the governments will keep on knowing no matter what you do?
I think the best way to do those statistics would be to use up to several independent measurement institutes each putting their measuring equipments at all kinds of different places on the Internet. All providing authenticated session statistics but just like Google insisted upon being asked by the Bush administration, not providing directly identifiable user identities. Although using parsing and whatever, the Government will always be able to know if they really want to.
Then on the other side you can have several recommendations engines and algorithms working to try to provide the best of the best recommendations for each user on which other books they may like, which authors they may want to check out. Those recommendations algorithms can be worked on by any number of advanced mathematicians, using APIs hooking into the rest of the databases.
Not one company should own the subscription model, not one company should own the statistics, not one company should own the unique recommendations engine, not one company should be able to sign exclusive distribution deals, that would simply be anti-competitive and we already have laws against that.