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Legal controls? You mean you want to bring in government regulation so that all the players down to the smallest personal website will have to do all the things
by superkuh 6y ago
Legal controls? You mean you want to bring in government regulation so that all the players down to the smallest personal website will have to do all the things required of even the most giant corporations? So that once this onerous system of centralized control is set up it'll soon be bought and co-opted by the very people it was meant to regulate originally?
No. We've already seen this game play out over and over, and recently too! It's not like GDPR has stopped the big corporations from monetizing information about you. It's just made it so that WHOIS lookups are now worthless and don't even contain contact emails.
- Supermancho 6y agoImagine a system that's so technologically complex, that lawmakers can't even create laws to codify the system, much less controls on the dependent systems. We already have that in the W3C browsers. This idea of "legal controls" on advertising will have to start with well understood systems before online advertising is affected, imo.