Kind of a charged title for this article… what the commission wants is that the data that is gathered about you, with your consent or not, can’t be used for personalization of political ads, and this makes sense. Each political list should have a clear message for the general public, and not be able to manipulate the truth and intentions when addressing a singular community. Anyone comparing this to 1984 forgets that the plot centers around the use of constant data collection that the political structure uses to manipulate the truth in order to pacify the communities. Almost sound repetitive, these two sentences, don’t they… At the end of the day, I think these measures would help level the playing field. Some agents use our unshakable faith in the market of ideas against us, and don’t play by the rules, and this is a first step.
And regardless if you agree with the above part, the most important is that ads would have to clearly display where the money that funded it comes from. If anything, this should be guaranteed, so that people can properly research who’s pushing that message. Make it so that it is unignorable who’s responsible, and make them state what other projects they also participate in. The point that it must be made harder for people to abuse the democratic political discussion in favour of propagating anti-democratic, anti-discussion ideas.
why not just ban targeted advertising in general?
That seems difficult to enforce. Even if such a law were passed, I’d expect that someone would target correlated factors.
I’m also a little fuzzy why political ads that target the mentioned groups violate the integrity of elections.
Targeted ads have been around for a long time. You don’t put the same ad in a children’s magazine as you do in *Playboy*.
Just ban all data gathering (outside of regulated scientific research). If they want to give people the “benefit” of “personalized ads”, give people settings they can set if they choose to. Like “off”. Or preferably “on”. Make ads opt-in, if you really want to people to want them.
UDMR face ca trenul dacă vede asta
Europe or EU? Its a huge difference
Not by gender… interesting
This will kill all the ethnic minority parties.
Why not ban ads at all?
based
Good luck with that idea in Estonia and Latvia, the Russians here live in a parallel universe.
maybe ban political ads generally?
Ethnicity? Easy to bypass by using specific language.
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Kind of a charged title for this article… what the commission wants is that the data that is gathered about you, with your consent or not, can’t be used for personalization of political ads, and this makes sense. Each political list should have a clear message for the general public, and not be able to manipulate the truth and intentions when addressing a singular community. Anyone comparing this to 1984 forgets that the plot centers around the use of constant data collection that the political structure uses to manipulate the truth in order to pacify the communities. Almost sound repetitive, these two sentences, don’t they… At the end of the day, I think these measures would help level the playing field. Some agents use our unshakable faith in the market of ideas against us, and don’t play by the rules, and this is a first step.
And regardless if you agree with the above part, the most important is that ads would have to clearly display where the money that funded it comes from. If anything, this should be guaranteed, so that people can properly research who’s pushing that message. Make it so that it is unignorable who’s responsible, and make them state what other projects they also participate in. The point that it must be made harder for people to abuse the democratic political discussion in favour of propagating anti-democratic, anti-discussion ideas.
why not just ban targeted advertising in general?
That seems difficult to enforce. Even if such a law were passed, I’d expect that someone would target correlated factors.
I’m also a little fuzzy why political ads that target the mentioned groups violate the integrity of elections.
Targeted ads have been around for a long time. You don’t put the same ad in a children’s magazine as you do in *Playboy*.
Just ban all data gathering (outside of regulated scientific research). If they want to give people the “benefit” of “personalized ads”, give people settings they can set if they choose to. Like “off”. Or preferably “on”. Make ads opt-in, if you really want to people to want them.
UDMR face ca trenul dacă vede asta
Europe or EU? Its a huge difference
Not by gender… interesting
This will kill all the ethnic minority parties.
Why not ban ads at all?
based
Good luck with that idea in Estonia and Latvia, the Russians here live in a parallel universe.
maybe ban political ads generally?
Ethnicity? Easy to bypass by using specific language.
Internet has ads?