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I can't help but feel we're approaching a reckoning, in both senses, for platforms selling targeted access to their users. It's just too powerful. On one side
by oliwarner 9y ago
I can't help but feel we're approaching a reckoning, in both senses, for platforms selling targeted access to their users.
It's just too powerful.
On one side it's propaganda, on the other it's illegal hiring practices (eg only advertising to young, able bodied men). I can't imagine a democratic world will tolerate this much longer.
- 659087 9y agoI sure hope you're right. It's far beyond time for the "changing the world!" and "Don't be evil" style feel-good propaganda of Silicon Valley to be pulled back to reveal the reality of what it has been used as cover for.