Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by cameronbrown on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:48AM
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I've worked with small businesses - the small one to thirty person plummer or photographer or decorator type. What you're asking for is fundamentally impossible. Business and entrepreneurship is a human process where two entities find a transaction that benefits them both.
Of course this breaks down when shady actors manipulate in bad faith, but that's the price of freedom. To put a ban into place as extensive as you're suggesting would be to regulate speech as far as I'm concerned.
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @08:42AM
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You're just reinforcing the point that we're in too deep for it to be a comfortable transition.
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by cameronbrown on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:28AM
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Not really. I understand your complaint, but what you're saying would kill entrepreneurship. How else can companies compete if they're not even allowed to go 'hey, I think we've got a better solution at a lower price'.
I know this first hand, I built these systems. The end state is to know and predict everything you do, and then sell you something about it. Whether its a product or an experience or a feeling. That's where it all leads - you lose your agency. Getting rid of online marketing or nudging it one direction or the other won't really change it. You can ban it online outright, but it will persist in another form.
Our entire world economy is based on different groups vying for your attention to monetize, to the point that as we go further, nothing is not monetizable.
It's the Truman show, but everyone is Truman.