Privacy @lemmy.ml DigiDali @feddit.de 1y ago

EU should ban targeted advertising

algorithmwatch.org Political Ads: EU Lawmakers must uphold human rights to privacy and free expression - AlgorithmWatch

In light of a leaked “non-paper” from the European Commission, AlgorithmWatch and 26 other civil society organizations have called on EU co-legislators to address our serious concerns about the proposed regulation on Targeting and Transparency of Political Advertising.

targeted advertising [...] have a serious negative impact on election #integrity [...] risks democratic pluralism and #freedom of expression contained in the Council’s proposal [...] tactics should have no place in #HumanRights respecting democracies [...] goes against what the majority of #people want

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Europe @lemmy.ml Jure Repinc @lemmy.ml 1y ago

EU should ban targeted advertising

algorithmwatch.org /en/political-ads-privacy-free-expression/

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All advertising is harmful, a complete ad ban would be wonderful, very hard to enforce thought.
- The only good advertising is honest word of mouth from buyer to buyer. No marketing team involved
  
  I disagree with this. If a new shop comes out, how are they supposed to get word-of-mouth over the bigger, more shopped at shop, even if it is better? People will stick with what they know, and the new shop will die. Maybe this is a naïve perspective, but that's how I am thinking here.
Honestly let's just ban all advertising, except for maybe small signs.
Eu should stop the chat control

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