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dualvariable • yesterday at 7:14 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Advertisement and propaganda are two different arms of the same mechanism/technology stack.

And they have been for a very long time, dating back to at least when von Braun was building those V2s.

If we lived in a more humane world, intrusive advertisement and propaganda would all be banned--but that is like talking about some kind of utopia-level civilization right now. Might as well be discussing modern democracy back in the 10th century.