The internet is now ... closed for business
> to see if their emotions could be manipulated based on which posts they were served
Shudder.
So if these people find that explicitly manipulating the emotions of web users is illegal, that's pretty much the end of the whole thing.
Every advertisement intends to manipulate readers' emotions (greed, lust, fear, more greed, confusion, avarice, envy and some more greed). Every troll post tries to do something very similar (e.g. Apple products are overpriced and only bought by people who value style over substance) such as instill anger, laughter (at those who get angry), confusion or happiness - as Madame de Gaulle once mispronounced.
Get rid of all instances of this and we're back in the days of Gopher and newsgroups.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
