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There's plenty of marketing targeted towards children outside of Big Tech. What's the difference when they do it?
by okdood64 2y ago
There's plenty of marketing targeted towards children outside of Big Tech. What's the difference when they do it?
- Nasrudith 2y agoThey aren’t new players with potential electoral influence, and the old media players are in decline.
- rchaud 2y agoTV, radio and newspaper ads are regulated by the FTC. Advertising on these mediums is limited (24 hours in a day, X number of pages in a paper) and illegal content can be easily tracked and archived, and prosecuted. Big Tech serves an ungodly number of ads from all kinds of scrupulous and unscrupulous parties. Ad content is almost impossible to track and monitor. Big Tech says "let us self-regulate" while also saying "it's not possible to ensure thaf every single ad we serve complies with the law, we're doing our best".