"Power & Progress": Professor Daron Acemoglu
ROCKING OUR PRIORS
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The Digital Ad Tax and the Rohingya Genocide
I think the digital ad tax would have its most direct and more forecastable effects in the industrialized world where centralization of information is in the hands of platform. Do you think it would stop authoritarians from using social media to inflame hate? I don't know that. But forgive me, how do we know that suppose Facebook could make fewer products, fewer smaller profits? How do we know they would change their strategy? Like they could just tighten the screws and do even more, you know, more line things could do? We don't know, we don't know. If in the 2000s, Facebook had a subscription model, it would not be in this rush to reach a
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