Adtech is psychological manipulation. Radicalisation uses the same techniques: Create the perception of a vacuum and then provide the solution to fill it.

One is actively censored and you can go to jail for, the other isn't even on the legislative agenda. There are semi-understandable reasons, but it's far from entirely non-hypocritical.

- Do you trust your constituency to make up their own minds or not?

- Who are you trying to protect?

  - From what?

  - From whom?

And this is without even mentioning online advertising as a (seemingly increasing) vector of scams, frauds, malware and viruses.