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Thinking about my past experiences —- I can definitely see how that may be the case.

That being said — we have got a problem here and we ought to try and solve it. The ability to target people with potent advertisements tuned using machine learning on large scale populations is fearsome in its potential. At the very least it should not be allowed to continue without basic restrictions and oversight. Like it should be obvious that targeted political advertisements in liberal, free-market democracies will lead us to bad places! Yet we do nothing.




Totally - I think there lots of things that can be improved and lots of rules/laws or data policy that makes sense around privacy and civil liberties.

I thought Zuckerberg’s Georgetown talk on political ads was actually pretty good (digs into some of the complexity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/17/zuckerb...)

I’d also recommend this: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033714.do

The main issue I have with the HN post is that it’s arguing against this nuance in favor of just banning it.




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