>> to stop doing things that are causing significant harm to society. >When people say this, what they really mean is they prefer a society where people are le

>> to stop doing things that are causing significant harm to society. >When people say this, what they really mean is they prefer a society where people are less empowered to speak their minds Somehow I think you might be missing a pretty broad middle ground between ridding society of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of yearly man hours spent on convincing people to consume, and oppressively limiting speech... Personally I'm generally for rather limited legislation, but the depths to which ad companies are going to vacuum and aggregate every bit of personal information from our lives is, frankly, terrifying. A society wherin each and every one of our actions, habits, and beliefs is monitored and recorded is called a dystopia, and all that data is only a legislative handwave away from an authoritarian nightmare. I'm not sure what the answer is, but in this rare case I start to wonder if some sort of legislation may be necessary, even given the typical heavy-handedness and technological illiteracy of the legislative powers. But, honestly, the layman has proven to be too ignorant to understand the scope of this problem and vote with their clicks/wallet.