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How Close are we to Peak Social Media?

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the hit-the-hate-button dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".

If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:15PM (3 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:15PM (#637087) Journal

    Where is it even implied that "surveillance capitalism" is going anywhere? What does that have to do with the price of rice?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:08PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:08PM (#637125)

    Price of rice? I don't understand:

    the traditional usage of rice as currency medium

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_currency [wikipedia.org]