> Have you watched TV in the last 50 years? All television, radio, etc relies on ad revenue. Yes, and that's been a horror that Lovecraft and Orwell combined w

> Have you watched TV in the last 50 years? All television, radio, etc relies on ad revenue. Yes, and that's been a horror that Lovecraft and Orwell combined wouldn't comprehend. The uncountable hours of human eyeball time wasted utterly; worse than wasted; used to whitewash the reputations of criminals and scumbags. For what? To sponsor "news" that itself is a commercial? For TV and radio that leaves people dumber than they'd be without it? Billionaire media moguls have done very well. Entrenched political interests have done great. Fossil fuel fucks and tobacco companies, pharma and insurance, polluters and propagandists have all done very well indeed - for themselves. ... The rest of us - not so much. Cheap junk, rotting minds, hyper saturated nonsense killing thought itself. > The difference is that those ads tend to be better targeted The problem is NOT the targeting. The problem is the unfathomable scale of the negative externalities.