> "you're trying to manipulate readers right now. Why is your manipulation good but companies manipulation is bad?"
I didn't say my manipulation is good. Why is lifting 1Kg good but lifting 1000Kg bad? My manipulation doesn't have a billion dollars and a team of PhDs behind it. "Children need to be protected from pervasive junk food adverts in apps, social media and video blogs, the World Health Organization says." - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37846318
> "the only interpretation I'm coming up with is that you believe a central authority should stop people from making food taste better."
Even when people are suffering obesity with malnutrition[1] to the point of death while companies advertise 'happy meals', we still won't face that there's a problem. Central authorities act to prevent harm societal harms at the expense of personal freedoms in many existing situations. Here is a societal harm. Here is some central authority pushback: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45110055 and https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-advertising-rules-to-...
I didn't say my manipulation is good. Why is lifting 1Kg good but lifting 1000Kg bad? My manipulation doesn't have a billion dollars and a team of PhDs behind it. "Children need to be protected from pervasive junk food adverts in apps, social media and video blogs, the World Health Organization says." - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37846318
> "the only interpretation I'm coming up with is that you believe a central authority should stop people from making food taste better."
Even when people are suffering obesity with malnutrition[1] to the point of death while companies advertise 'happy meals', we still won't face that there's a problem. Central authorities act to prevent harm societal harms at the expense of personal freedoms in many existing situations. Here is a societal harm. Here is some central authority pushback: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45110055 and https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-advertising-rules-to-...
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-018-0143-9