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I'm not sure I'm following your points. You're moving back and forth between enormous historical and current problems and sweeping the platitudinal meat under the rug.

It's easy to point to those problems and say,"Yeah, but this is nowhere near what it used to be!". If a global, location and interests tracking system looks like a duck, then it's probably a duck.

Disclaimer: I work for an advertisement company. Opinions are my own.

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> I'm not sure I'm following your points. You're moving back and forth between enormous historical and current problems and sweeping the platitudinal meat under the rug.

The problems America faces are largely controlled by democratic systems.

Google, Facebook, et al are neither the cause nor the solution to the problems described by the author of the post.

If we decide to turn ad networks into surveillance systems used to commit crimes against humanity it will be because our democratically elected representatives were told to do something by voters and they did so.

If you don't mind me asking, what sort of political, civics or activism work have you done? What you're saying rings true to a point, but it's not useful to the conversation and comes off as armchair naivete.

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