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I was surprised that given where the movie went, there seemed to be little discussion of the idea of banning personalized advertising. While it would be difficult to stomach for the companies who've thrived on that business model, the social consequences and business incentives of personalized advertising are corroding our society.

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Read Bernays (or the Creel Report if you can find it) for an account of how personalised advertising and manual social graph exploitation worked about a century ago.

Of course, back then, they targeted with much less data. For comparisons from half a century ago to now, consider https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html .

Never heard about the Creel Report before, but here it is: https://archive.org/details/completereportof00unit/page/8/mo... Thanks for the tip.

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