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When you walk into the living room to watch Mad Men, the TV should know it and adjust the in-screen Twitter feed accordingly.

No thank you. This product you describe is abhorrent to me.

No man should ever watch a commercial for feminine hygiene again. No woman should watch a beer commercial that objectifies women again.

The Taliban would approve of that. Except for the part about the beer.



It's not about censorship, it's about targeted advertising. Google doesn't offer up adsense ads for maxi pads because it knows I'm a man.


This scheme speaks for itself.

It doesn't matter what you or I think it's "about".


Yeah, it kinda does, because, you know, its my scheme.


So what?

What matters is the behavior of the system in reality, in the present and in the future, not the intent of the original designer at some point in time.




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