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See also e.g. YouTube advertisements for financial schemes, supplements, health devices - and all the products that just don’t do what they say they do. In a c

by jrmg 3y ago

See also e.g. YouTube advertisements for financial schemes, supplements, health devices - and all the products that just don’t do what they say they do. In a conversation online about this recently, someone said (paraphrasing) ‘Government should regulate this!’ - but there are already regulations about all of this! It’s fraud! Fraud is literally paying for YouTube (and to varying extents a lot of the rest of the web) and nothing is being done about it. I fear that it’s just considered so normal now that it will take a very long time to stop. If existing regulations about fraud had been enforced when the fields were nascent, establishing norms that it was just as unacceptable ‘with tech’ as it was before, I think it would be a lot less widespread now.

thomastjeffery 3y ago
Here's my advice: stop coloring our discussions with those norms. We all expect the courts to give the benefit of the doubt. The problem is that we echo that expectation in our discussions. We are not the courts! We should be loud and direct with our criticism. There is no doubt here. I refuse to give corporations that benefit.