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Comment by imiric

2 months ago

> So we have some annoying advertising. Small price.

Ha. Tell that to the millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco and Big Pharma.

That prosperous society and veritable wonderland is not looking so great these days. Perhaps the fact that the tools built for psychologically manipulating people into buying things can also be used to manipulate people into thinking and acting a certain way could be related to your current situation? Maybe those tools shouldn't have been available to everyone, including your political adversaries?

But hey, glad you're enjoying it over there.

> millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco

People have known that smoking is bad for your health for around 400 years. You can't fix stupid, not even by making advertising illegal.