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I don't care who invests in advertising. If someone has something to say, they should be allowed to say it and I as the reader can decide for myself if I agree

• barrkel 8y ago
  Do you think advertising works, to influence outcomes? (There are a lot of people betting enormous sums of money that it does.) Should hostile nation states be allowed to advertise anonymously to influence electoral outcomes? Do you think the people should get a say in whether hostile nations get to influence electoral outcomes? The government is the agent of the people.
• b_tterc_p 8y ago
  And if a politician makes specific political promises to specific populations which are contradictory? Or if an ad company sends you lies proportional to the amount of bullshit you are analytically predicted to receive? Or if a foreign government with clear malicious motives want to spew chaos by posing controversial chaos and inciting arguments between two populations?
• jmhnilbog 8y ago
  Everything that you've ever encountered has made some tiny impression on you. Advertising is a "weaponized" process that aims to force a set of impressions on people where the agents behind it think that they know how those impressions will alter their behavior. Even if you think that you are not influenced by advertising -- though you certainly are in some way, since you are experiencing it -- you have to see that unregulated media platforms are magnifying all kinds of kookiness.
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