anonyme-honteux

This is so much bullshit. Just because there are problems right now doesn't mean they couldn't possibly be fixed. In fact they can be for the good reason that Open Source is very cheap. Think about the price/benefits ratio of Wikipedia. What has ever been so close? We know it's cheap, we know it's valuable, we know it's an important good.

The real reason is: why are we not investing more money in it?

Sorry but that's also useless until we know whose lives are in danger and who is an obstacle to their lives being in danger.

Because if the motivation is to save lies, why would you keep that information secret?

Maybe you can ask your friends if they have something more precise and more useful that their ego being hurt?

That could be for example "people who have a tendency to do depression are at a higher risk of suicide because Facebook has been optimizing user engagement like a psychopath".

Now yes I would be interested because that looks like an area where you can have a meaningful positive effect in the real world.

That's a useless word though.

It's like "all lives matter". Nobody but psychopaths disagree so why do people bring it up? What's the point?

Mostly to defend the status quo where some lives matter less than others.

> Women see attractive models in advertising, they think "unachievable beauty ideals, I feel pressured".

And they are right.

> I see the same, I think "it exploited my biology to grab my attention, damn it worked again".

And you are right.

> Is it let's make money?

Yes

> Is it misogyny or is it mis-everyone?

It is misoginy, and misoginy is always is mis-everyone - but a tiny elite who benefits from it.

Advertisers for example.

TODO: Add "why-not-both?" meme here.

"How xxx Corrupted Advertising" is a really strange titlre.

It seems to assume that Advertising being corrupted is a new thing?

And that the Elon guy is somehow a genius for noticing a part of the problem?

The whole history of advertising seems to indicate that in fact Advertising was designed to make us buy things we don't need, not designed to talk to the better angels of our nature.

Edward Bernays, aka Freud nephew, was a pioneer in Public Relations (called Propaganda at the time, they were not afraid of the word) and one of his greatest success was to convince women to start smoking en masse. He did that by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

If that's not corrupt, I don't know what is.

I mean the whole industry would look really really different if they had to give up misoginy. Think "Cheat On Your Girlfriend, Not On Your Workout” (Reebook) and 42.000 other examples

I don't know I tried to understand CSS many times but never managed to get it: I'm a backend developer nowadays.