4 ms·
There won't be any ads. This may not have been explicitly listed, but a user-centric communication medium does not perpetrate psychological warfare against its
by gue5t 10y ago
There won't be any ads.
This may not have been explicitly listed, but a user-centric communication medium does not perpetrate psychological warfare against its users and reward distracting them, stalking and profiling them, or exploiting their naïvete. It empowers them by giving them access to information on their terms. This is definitional.
- krapp 10y agoIf users choose to advertise, a user-centric communication medium would allow them to do so. To ban advertisements outright would be censorship.
- eevilspock 10y agoHe didn't say "ban" much less "ban outright", did he? The list is "desirable properties". I agree with his characterization of advertising, and that to be "people centric", there would be no ads by definition. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773
- krapp 10y agoI'm not a huge fan of advertising on the web, I think it's doomed to failure. But I disagree that it's desirable to be rid of advertising. And I only say that because I believe freedom of expression - and that includes commercial expression - is sacrosanct. In my opinion, a truly "people centric" platform allows my right to serve whatever I want (within the bounds of the law) to supercede anyone else's personal ethics.
- eevilspock 10y agoJust because freedom allows you to say most anything doesn't mean all those things are consistent with freedom. One can protect the KKK's right to free speech while simultaneously saying that their speech is undesirable and inconsistent with freedom. The same principle applies to "people centric". I think you keep inserting "ban" into what you're responding to when no one is saying that. Try rereading the article and the parent comments without that bias.
- Singletoned 10y agoI agree that advertising at the moment is an anti-feature, but it is at least theoretically possible that an advert could be of benefit to a user. If advertising were to reach the quality and targettedness that they were telling you about things you genuinely wanted, it would be a useful service. Kind of like advertising as a recommendation engine. That would be quite people centric. I don't think we will get there though.