agreed. i love [moxie](http://thoughtcrime.org/)’s term for this: the No Network Effect.
> “So yes, I made a choice to have a cell phone. But what kind of choice did I make? And I think that this is the way that things tend to go now. What ends up happening is the choices start out very simple. Do I have a piece of consumer electronics in my pocket or not? And over time, the scope of that choice slowly expands until it becomes a choice to participate in society or not.”
https://snarfed.org/2013-04-13_the-no-network-effect
I like the No Network Effect term. I sometimes wonder what these de facto requirements mean in the context of algorithmic surveillance – could it mean that not being the right kind of consumer (and therefore having a radically different data footprint) marks you out as being worth scrutinizing, or even as some kind of threat?
There’s a great science fiction novel in there somewhere, but also, unfortunately, probably some kind of actual policy.