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Re:How Evil Is Tech? by iliketosleep on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:19AM (#15756208)
If you regulate away advertising supported sites/services, you're discriminating against lower socioeconomic groups. It would be better to just regulate how much information advertisers can collect, which in turn gives them fewer powers of manipulation.
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Re:How Evil Is Tech? by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:12AM (#15756471)
>If you regulate away advertising supported sites/services, you're discriminating against lower socioeconomic groups.

It seems to be the opposite to me. Such massive influence by advertisers means only those with the most money get heard in the media.

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Re:How Evil Is Tech? by dqpb on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:18AM (#15757368)
If people have to pay to use every web app then people without money won't be able to use any web apps.

Or do you think it's the opposite?

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Re:How Evil Is Tech? by wu-ikkyu on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:31PM (#15761268)
Why do you assume that if we did away with advertising supported content that every website would be locked behind a paywall?
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