Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoSounds like a plan from someone that has never been lobbied by the advertising industry. Many billions are at stake here. Not many governments can withstand the kind of lobby power this money can buy.
Would be great to see more crackdown on this though. Random companies are collecting tons of data on people via default opt-in methods.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The crazy thing (to me) is that governments can still get all of those billions without the unsure influence. Instead of bribes, they can charge fines, taxes, fees for regulatory inspections, etc. When you wrote the the, you don’t have to just shrug when things are obviously broken.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Not crazy (to me). Charging taxes doesn’t make you likely to get re-elected. Taking money from lobbyists and giving them what they want does.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If the lobbyists have money to pay bribes, then they have money to pay taxes. It doesn’t seem like a stretch for the government to get that money without all of the coercion.