• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    It’s someone else selling your time/attention/quiet peace without your consent so I guess you could sort of see that as theft. In the same way that kidnapping is theft of your freedom, but then almost everything is theft if you word it right.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      This is correct, it is a linguistic stretch, but it gets my feelings across and is short and quipy.