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And, of course, you can also use the data to exclude people you know won't react to your message. "Oh, this person is a registered Democrat, voted a straight D ticket in the past four elections, follows DailyKOS and likes Black Lives Matter. Throw him into the exclusionary group and we won't waste a 1/10th of penny trying to change his mind."

 

Since when do a leader's actual words matter?

 

I agree. I believe the marketplace should be allowed to do its thing (and no, I'm not being snarky here).

 

Or better yet, you flood him with stuff that tries to poke the Sanders/Clinton divide and encourage him to stay home.

 

We can't use the weekly slaughter of school children as a political tool, but by god we sure as hell can use the mysterious non-murder of a Border Patrol agent!

FBI report debunks Trump's suggestion that Mexicans attacked and killed a border patrol agent

 

Since you posted an article claiming to be about the leader's words. Do you think of yourself as an honest person, or do you realize you aren't?

 

I appreciate that, but I'm not really questioning the effectiveness of those approaches. Rather, I still don't see how "hacking" voter registration datasets furthers the implementation of those approaches. It might make it marginally, perhaps trivially, less expensive ... if A) it's cheaper than compiling (?) those OrangeParty.com FB pixels; and B) the result is largely comparable. So maybe the Rooskies got the raw material for $1 million when it would have cost them $5 million to pay someone/thing for it (and these are just spitballs).

The things you're talking about -- the "affinity" data, for lack of a better adjective -- they're not going to be on those voter registration databases. The data I get from those free are worth about what they cost me ... nothing. Thus my skepticism as to that facet of it.

 

I think we found @Starman ... be careful up there.

 

We've had some baseline advertising regulations in this country for a long time.

The market is the market is the market, but we can always take positive steps to limit and improve how we represent and sell things to one another.

Timeline - Truth In Advertising

 

Not as re: political advertising ...

 

Interesting.

 

For the Ruskies, it's not about saving money. It's about targeting the type of person who will act on their behalf when given the right messaging. And the beginning process of that starts with the registrations. Or the party site pixel info, which has to be handed over to them (or stolen, and there's no evidence of that) for them to use.