Political Ads: EU Lawmakers must uphold human rights to privacy and free expression - AlgorithmWatch
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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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  • dedale@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    All advertising is harmful, a complete ad ban would be wonderful, very hard to enforce thought.

    • Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      The only good advertising is honest word of mouth from buyer to buyer. No marketing team involved

      • Noodlez@programming.dev
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.