Jeff Landry, lawyer, smells blood in the water and wants to go after Facebook and Google

Is that the best you can do?? What an idiot.

Who are the freedom hating people here that wants the government to punish Facebook and Google for selling advertising???

IB, do you wake up and plan what kind of bullshite posts you are going to pull out of your arse each day, or is it something that just comes natural to you?

Have you ever dreamt of a post having more upvotes than downvotes?

Is orangeman still bad?

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Have you ever dreamt of a post having more upvotes than downvotes?

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the horror!

This is Landry just reminding us how bad he wants to be governor one day. His term as AG is been full of grandstanding i can't wait to see how he uses all of this to run for governor. Just a prime example of another fake GOP conservative.

He best be careful---the demographics of facebook in Louisiana are the voters republicans depend on. They love the platform.

It could be worse than a democrat going after the Times Picayune.

The one small argument I’ll counter with (just for the sake of discussion moreso than actually disagreeing with you) is the possibility that producers are able to better price discriminate with the information they acquire from platforms like Facebook. Not perfect price discrimination, but still, better.


As data collection and analysis accelerates, these platforms may be able to give producers a venue to effectively differentiate willingness to pay differences in various demographics, allowing the same product to be sold for a larger range of prices to different consumer groups. They could more easily advertise the product at one price for groups willing to pay more and a lower price for groups less willing to pay. Economists would say that this price discrimination leads to an increase in producer surplus at the expense of consumer surplus. But in plain speak, that argument essentially just boils down to firms finding ways to be more profitable. And I’m not sure it’s appropriate for government to prevent that, even if it’s done for the sake of protecting consumers.


But long answer short, you don’t need to target individual consumers; differentiating consumer groups by willingness to pay still creates the opportunity to distort the markets heavily in the producer’s favor. I don’t think we’re quite there yet, but I also don’t think we’re far off from it.

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Would you want a government that would keep Chinese made shoes from advertising on google????

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Don't use Google. I use Duck Duck Go plus I have an ad blocker. I don't see ads and I am rarely influenced by ads without independent research. I might react to a Kroger ad in their sale paper but I requested that.

So Landry has a problem with parishes suing Big Oil for coastal erosion, but no problem with suing Big Tech for... whatever theory of liability he tried to convey with the shoe example?

I never knew Republicans loved lawsuits so much . This is great.