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Anyway the big idea that I’ve been dwelling on is that if you outlaw advertising because of its pernicious negative influence on people, it doesn’t disappear - it just gets harder to identify. It gets subtle - the boundaries between content & advertising blur.
This makes the advertising, or as we’d call it, “paid content,” harder to identify. Which can lead to even more negative pernicious effects vs. when it’s out in the open.
The more I think about how to counteract the negative effects of advertising-driven services like facebook, the more I think the tech industry a) won’t self-regulate and b) won’t (and shouldn’t) be driving the eventual solution.
We had our shot & we fucked it up. Thanks, Zuck. You ruined it for everyone. Time to get some adults in here who understand policy and actually consider the repercussions of various approaches.
A podcast episode I listened to recently went down the rabbit hole of how modern advertising has taught us to accept obviously false narratives as truth/truthy and now are brains are broken and we accept the same sort of nonsense from political ads/speeches/campaigns.
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