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Re:Not Smart Is Not Stupid by TheOtherHobbes on Friday April 15, 2016 @09:43AM (#11504195)
Bought and paid for "rankings" are noise, not useful information.

Payola is a feedback loop that rewards cash, not free consumer choice, and is more or less guaranteed to enable consumer-hostile monopolies.

At the very best you'll get a race to the bottom like the one that happened in online advertising.

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Re:Not Smart Is Not Stupid by thaumasiotes on Sunday April 17, 2016 @12:10AM (#11513462)
So use the rankings that you approve of. Music rankings aren't, and cannot be, subject to American law, and they exist in infinite variety.

However, I'm most curious about the consumer-hostility that you envision resulting from payola. What is the harm that consumers will suffer?

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