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Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ... by lopmotr on Monday March 19, 2018 @08:23PM (#16624789)
Just because it's new technology doesn't make it bad. Hitler used PA speakers and radio advertisements to win the election. Politicians since then have all done the same. Then there was TV advertising, then Obama's targeted intelligent internet advertising, now this. Are you opposed to all political advertising? In that case, this is not the moment that it became bad. It started, well, with the beginning of human politics.
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Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ... by fny on Monday March 19, 2018 @08:51PM (#16624933)
Of course, technology doesn't kill people. I never said it did. Right now I'm pointing fingers at people for what they're doing, not the underlying technology.

A wise man once said, "Drain the swamp." It's my civic duty to point out swampiness unabashedly and impartially.

Since CAs behavior, and by extension CAs customers, is inexcusable, swampy human behavior, I will stand against it. In the same way the DNCs actions against Bernie Sanders was inexcusable, the way the DNCs actions against Bernie Sanders was inexcusable, union corruption is inexcusable, corporate negligence is inexcusable, product misrepresentation is inexcusable, bullshit ICOs are inexcusable, authoritarian communism is inexcusable, the same way that history has been full of lying and deceitful politicians, priests, businessmen, lawyers, activists, messiahs I will stand against it.

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Re:The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is ... by TheOtherHobbes on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:09PM (#16625040)
Yes. "Everyone does it and always has" is a very weak excuse.
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