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> knowing who is funding those adverts and campaigns and putting controls on campaign spending is important. If I understand you correctly, you are advocating

> knowing who is funding those adverts and campaigns and putting controls on campaign spending is important. If I understand you correctly, you are advocating for anti-privacy by _forcing_ advertisers into "transparency"? > putting controls on campaign spending is important That sounds dangerous. How would you feel if we put some campaign spending controls on campaigns you _agree_ with and promote? Controlling campaign spending is a ridiculous notion anyways because there is (fortunately) no global law. Even if there was, you can bet there would be a black market.

TazeTSchnitzel 8y ago
Campaign spending limits and requiring the publication of some political donations is settled law in many countries. In fact, this is true to at least some degree in the US, too. These are not new ideas and the debate about whether they are worth implementing has already been won. The problem is that online advertising can get past existing laws.
killjoywashere 8y ago
Look, the issue is there's a pretty steep gradient here. There's the unwashed masses making just enough to survive, and a small group of millionaires and billionaires making calculated use of millions to secure policies that will print them billions in the future. Pretty sure some quick look-ups will show there are working definitions for this disparity in election literature. So, while I appreciate your "Americans aren't poor, they're just temporarily embarrassed millionaires" version of equality for the farce it is, I'd appreciate it if you tried mangling the truth somewhere else.
Angostura 8y ago
> If I understand you correctly, you are advocating for anti-privacy by _forcing_ advertisers into "transparency"? That's absolutely correct. If you donate more than a certain sum to campaign, you should be forced to be transparent about it. > That sounds dangerous. How would you feel if we put some campaign spending controls on campaigns you _agree_ with and promote? I live in a country where all political parties are bound by exactly such rules. Moreover TV advertising by political parties are is explicity banned. Instead parties are allocated short 'Party political broadcast' slots on the main channels. It doesn't feel particularly "dangerous". There doesn't need to be a global law.

TazeTSchnitzel 8y ago

Campaign spending limits and requiring the publication of some political donations is settled law in many countries. In fact, this is true to at least some degree in the US, too. These are not new ideas and the debate about whether they are worth implementing has already been won. The problem is that online advertising can get past existing laws.

killjoywashere 8y ago

Look, the issue is there's a pretty steep gradient here. There's the unwashed masses making just enough to survive, and a small group of millionaires and billionaires making calculated use of millions to secure policies that will print them billions in the future. Pretty sure some quick look-ups will show there are working definitions for this disparity in election literature. So, while I appreciate your "Americans aren't poor, they're just temporarily embarrassed millionaires" version of equality for the farce it is, I'd appreciate it if you tried mangling the truth somewhere else.

Angostura 8y ago

> If I understand you correctly, you are advocating for anti-privacy by _forcing_ advertisers into "transparency"? That's absolutely correct. If you donate more than a certain sum to campaign, you should be forced to be transparent about it. > That sounds dangerous. How would you feel if we put some campaign spending controls on campaigns you _agree_ with and promote? I live in a country where all political parties are bound by exactly such rules. Moreover TV advertising by political parties are is explicity banned. Instead parties are allocated short 'Party political broadcast' slots on the main channels. It doesn't feel particularly "dangerous". There doesn't need to be a global law.