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by justapassenger 21 days ago
You do realize that sponsored stories aren’t modern invention? Magazines were full of it too, sometimes disclosed, most often not.
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And? They’d be banned too.
In fact they were, and perhaps even still are, however regulators have simply stopped enforcing consumer protection laws in the past 20 years. Neo-liberalism reigns supreme and Ronald Regan became the king of Europe.