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The “just following orders” argument? Journalists know good and well what their websites are doing if they themselves are supposedly experts on reporting on thi
by briandear 7y ago
The “just following orders” argument? Journalists know good and well what their websites are doing if they themselves are supposedly experts on reporting on this sort of thing. They expect employees at Google et al to go against their masters yet they are hypocrites because they don’t go against theirs.
- warent 7y agoNo, that's something completely different. These writers aren't actively implementing the advertising software. They're not "following orders" in anything with respect to ad tracking simply by being a contributor on the platform. At worst, they're complicit by working for the company that utilizes it. Frankly though we all complicit in this stuff one way or another even if there's the illusion that we aren't by some degree of separation. (EDIT: Deleted irrelevant argument)