Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:50PM
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It's not inconsistent to say that the government has significantly more resistance to manipulation than a random person.
Advertising is also regulated, by the government. The same one that regulates what goes inside of food. If the public is vulnerable to manipulation by advertising, the government is also vulnerable to manipulation by lobbying (remember the USDA "food pyramid" that put grains at the bottom due to industry lobbying?). Your argument is inconsistent because it implies that the government is somehow both simultaneously going to allow the public to be deceived by advertising, but correctly regulate the contents of food itself.