It almost makes me want to push for an advertising freeze on anyone who can't or won't prove their ID and age.
But I know it won't actually result in companies lobbying against requiring ID, it would just result in them lobbying to advertise more directly to children.
I don't think ads for gambling, drugs, fad diets etc. Should be shown to anyone. But I especially think that they (or any advertising) should be knowingly shown to children.
So right, advertising is manipulation, always has been, it's propaganda if it's political. Both propaganda and manipulation are considered immoral widely, but your average social media company gets a pass. Why? I posit good advertising (sigh), and lobbying. Fuck that.
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Little_mouse@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 52d
It almost makes me want to push for an advertising freeze on anyone who can't or won't prove their ID and age.
But I know it won't actually result in companies lobbying against requiring ID, it would just result in them lobbying to advertise more directly to children.
GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 52d
Oddly a desire to have "adult only" adverts wasn't my first reaction to this.
Little_mouse@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 52d
I don't think ads for gambling, drugs, fad diets etc. Should be shown to anyone. But I especially think that they (or any advertising) should be knowingly shown to children.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 52d
So right, advertising is manipulation, always has been, it's propaganda if it's political. Both propaganda and manipulation are considered immoral widely, but your average social media company gets a pass. Why? I posit good advertising (sigh), and lobbying. Fuck that.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
It's propaganda even if it isn't political. It just isn't political propaganda.
Whitebrow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 52d
It is about protecting kids… from knowledge on how to commit suicide as effectively as possible so you can serve them more ads in the meantime.
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49d
No one makes any money if you die (and undertakers are if nothing else, patient).
But if you hate yourself in just the right way... you will consume
FishFace@piefed.social · 0 pts · 52d
It's incompetence, not malice.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 52d
I dunno, Hanlon's Razor's gotten pretty dull over the past few years.
FishFace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 52d
Maybe, especially in the US, but if you do any thinking about it in this case it's obviously incompetence.
People who disagree just can't imagine that people might have different beliefs regarding the efficacy of technological controls.
gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 52d
It can be both, the malicious get support from the incompetent.