Governments could outlaw or down regulate business models that are based on surveillance and feed manipulation for benefit of third parties. Conflicts of inter

Governments could outlaw or down regulate business models that are based on surveillance and feed manipulation for benefit of third parties. Conflicts of interest have always been a problem. Now they scale. Now there are companies with hundreds of billions of dollars of market cap, with unrelenting pressure to grow, and their business model is an obvious conflict of interest. Things will get worse and worse until (if ever) the massive scaling of manipulative personalization is recognized as inherently deeply damaging to individuals and society. None of that would require targeting any particular content.