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by mensetmanusman 639 days ago
The CCP doesn’t want ad-tech startups, so they blew up the whole system.

Easier to have zero business leaders that might tip the boat with suggestions.

This is ‘let it rot’ in action.

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Will be interesting to see how it plays out :)

I think ad-tech has been a massive disaster for our society. I quit Instagram recently, I logged on the other day to message someone in the walled garden, I was shocked at what I saw and I couldn't believe I spent any time on it at all!

because they are the best ad tech. ads are about modifying behavior via external stimuli. instead of advertisers trying to affect behavior, its the government leveraging a social credit system to affect behavior.
> The CCP doesn’t want ad-tech startups

well that's one thing we can agree on.

CCP has been doing lots of things that people have, by and far, been silently nodding to and agreeing on. This particular instance is just saying the quiet part out loud.
I'm a fan of banning all crypto.
I guess if people can’t be rich with government funny money, they will just accumulate IOU’s from each other. Maybe automate the system in a decentralized ledger that avoids counterparty risk. Oh wait…

Of course tiktok, byd ev’s, solar, ai models coming out of China are doing fine, so it’s not all bleak.