Rocketman
So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:
"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."
And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.
Rocketman
Of course our ambition shouldn’t be limited to the US.
Burning the online advertising industry to the ground needs to be a global undertaking.
Rocketman
@markhughes I have no problem with advertising per se. In its place. Within limits.
Bike ads on a bike website? No problem. Artists promoting their work? More, please!
But the industry in its current state? Pushing and normalizing surveillance, rewarding outrage over debate and conflict over usefulness? Driving genocide (cf. Myanmar/Facebook)?
Burn it to the ground, the sooner the better.
Mark Hughes
@slothrop compare your words to my quoted text. Guess I could have said it more clearly!
Rocketman
@markhughes What point are you even trying to make?
Mark Hughes
@slothrop ahem, "burning the advertising industry to the ground..."
Advertising doesn't suddenly become evil because it's online.
pat
@slothrop The funny thing is that even among people working in the ad industry, that IAB speech is considered bizarre.
As the head of the North American & European ad lobby going on stage and openly ranting about privacy activism/legislation and calling to disrupt privacy protections is _not_ what you are supposed to do. It‘s a clear sign that they dropped the ball and are no longer in control.
Mary Branscombe
@slothrop "what you people [finger wag] need to understand is that privacy is a speedbump to innovation on the information superhighway": FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director David Vladeck to me at a conference in 2012 (yes, he said information superhighway in 20 freaking 12)
Mary Branscombe
@slothrop it was back at the height of the DNT fiasco and the very beginning of what became GDPR and he was calling it extraterritorial (and fuming about the right to be forgotten); I suggested that it might be a response to the inherent extraterritoriality of the PATRIOT act and got my first "you people" in return ;) https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-dnt-microsoft-the-ftc-and-silicon-valley/
Rocketman
@marypcbuk Hahaha, that’s a hoot!
It also confirms everything I’ve suspected about the FTC.
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
#Privacy isn't extremism, it's one of our #humanRights.
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." -- UDHR Article 12
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
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