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> Targeted ads and recommendation engines need to be banned.

I don't see how you can "ban ads" without instituting totalitarian dictatorship.

Targeted arguments are a core part of political campaigning and polarization has been increasing in the US for decades, even before the internet.

My pet solution would to switch to a multi-party system that isolates rather than amplifies fringe voices. In germany people can look at what AfD and Die Linke have to say without having to choose between them.



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