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Covid19 Policy and the Libertarian Party

Posted by Jonathan Hopper August 30, 2021 11:16 AM

by Phil Jacobson

The Libertarian Party of North Carolina (LPNC) has gone on record as opposing government mandates regarding passports for Covid-19 vaccinations. The LPNC also opposes government mandates regarding the use of masks or other government mandates on this topic. It may seem, therefore, that LPNC opposes the use of these methods. That is by no means the case. It may also seem that libertarians are totally united on these points. That is also not the case.

Posted by Jonathan Hopper August 30, 2021 11:16 AM

by Bruce Basson

The question of what government does to protect our rights during a pandemic is likely to come up again and again as world population increases and pandemics become more common.

Posted by Joe Garcia August 19, 2021 6:48 PM

In every large organization, there will be good and bad actors. Libertarians are not immune to this, despite our emphasis on the equal rights and dignity of all people. There will be those who support the cause of Liberty who act in good faith, and those who will use it to act in their own self-interest.

For too long, it has been widely accepted that sexism and sexual harassment are an inherent part of the culture in politics and, in the spirit of unity, the problem is often ignored and even excused.

Posted by Jonathan Hopper July 04, 2021 4:39 PM

On July 4, 1776, after years of turmoil, a group of young men declared that the United Colonies would be free from British rule. Little did they know that this declaration of independence would change the country and the world as we know it. These men pledged their Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor to make this declaration. We have celebrated the 4thof July every year since. The day celebrates independence from tyranny, oppression, and taxation.

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The following is a guest post by John Willkom, senior vice president of e-commerce at The Mars Agency. Opinions are the author's own.

Last Wednesday, Snap Inc. announced quarterly earnings. Already richly valued, the stock got absolutely hammered after hours, falling as much as 30%. And while investors ran to the door, it wasn't so much the numbers announced as it was the commentary outlining the "why."

This article isn't about stock prices or company valuations, though. It's about the potential implications for digital advertising and, frankly, the future of the internet.

Snap's miss centered on two things. The first was Apple's change to its privacy policy and specifically its Advertising Identifier (IDFA). Since this was announced in late April, this is the first real evidence that, despite workarounds, these changes make advertising less effective on iOS devices! The second was Snap's commentary on global supply chain disruptions. Put simply, brands don't have products to advertise, which naturally leads to a cutback in ad dollars. Snap is already competing on the fringe for ad dollars, so it makes sense that brands would cut there before Google or Facebook.

Apple has long argued that it's the white knight in this whole equation and user privacy is its North Star. However, in the past six months, its Search Ads business has more than tripled in market share, according to the Financial Times.

Meanwhile, fellow Silicon Valley darling Google owns 92.47% of the search engine market, according to Statista's June research. Google's rumored spat with Roku was once considered good old negotiation. Now that details are airing publicly, it's becoming clear that Google is flexing its muscles and not giving an inch when it comes to revenue share for YouTube properties on Roku devices. In addition, the recent attorney general's lawsuit against Google was unsealed and the following excerpt caught my eye:

Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation

75%, folks!

So, what does this all mean in the grand scheme of things? Here are my predictions:

Apple and Google didn't get to $2.5 trillion and $1.8 trillion valuations by settling for second place. Upcoming earnings announcements may be the most scrutinized of all time, as we're in the middle of disruptive change; we just don't know it yet.

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The dirty little secret about political labels is that nearly all of them are creations of the leftist legacy news media. When news organizations report that a politician is conservative, quite often that label is based on an extremely shallow subset of criteria: Republican party affiliation, pro-life and pro-gun votes, and a stated aversion to national figures such as Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. In truth, many of the elected officials that the socialists in the media claim are conservative are actually very much leftists.

The labels are irrelevant, and the loose use of the words by the press makes them largely meaningless.

That said, when reporters write that the IFF is Libertarian (with a capital letter L) that implies a connection with the Libertarian Party, which is an absolute lie. The IFF is nonpartisan, and is not connected with any political party: Libertarian, Republican, or Democrat. As far as the lowercase version of the word, IFF has never labeled itself as libertarian.

The IFFs policy concentration is on the limitation of government, which is central to the definition of conservative values, and the conservative spectrum of political ideas sometimes overlaps with libertarianism. Some libertarians believe that no government is the proper level of government. The IFF does not share that objective. We do, however, believe there is too much government, and too much government harms people and denies people their God-given rights.

If one is to label the IFF, it is most appropriate to label it as conservative, but more appropriate and specific descriptors would be pro-limited government, pro-free market, pro-liberty, and so on.

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Kristina: How is Content Recommendation different for marketers from other digital ad segments?

Pamela Becker, CMO, WhizzCo: Over the last decade, marketers have become accustomed to buying media via real-time bids on open programmatic markets. Programmatic technology has made online advertising more transparent and fair for advertisers, publishers, and platforms alike.

Content recommendation works differently. Here, many publishers sign exclusive contracts with a single content recommendation. Though advertisers do bid through auctions to serve ads, the bidding is among the content recommendation vendor's advertisers, and even the winning bidder won't know what their effective CPC needs to be to win the auction nor how much ad inventory is available - all things which are known in traditional programmatic auctions.

Therefore, advertisers are unable to optimize their bidding in content recommendation like they can in traditional programmatic bidding.

Kristina: What strategies can marketers implement to achieve their marketing goals with this method?

Pamela: Most content recommendation vendors, particularly the market leaders, provide advertisers with sophisticated contextual and interest-based targeting options. However, since many publishers have exclusive agreements with one vendor, in order to achieve broad reach, advertisers should work with several content recommendation vendors.

Kristina: Are there alternatives in the market?

Pamela: The truth is that the content recommendation market is slowly opening up. First, some vendors are enabling publishers to work with more than one content recommendation vendor. Second, new companies, like WhizzCo, use predictive algorithms to determine which content recommendation vendor's ad will deliver the greatest revenue for the publisher and the greatest relevancy for the advertiser.

These market changes should make content recommendations operate in a similar manner to the other 85% of online advertising, where, according to data from IPONWEB, ads are served via real-time programmatic auctions. But we're still several years and market changes from that.

Tags: advertising content, content marketing, content marketing trends, content recommendation, ecommerce content, Whizzco

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Election Day is this Tuesday, and there are quite a few choices to make on the ballot.

Across Virginia, voters will be choosing the three highest statewide offices on Tuesday.

Running for governor to lead the state of Virginia through the next four years are Democrat Terry McAuliffe, Republican Glenn Youngkin and Libertarian Princess Blanding.

Running for lieutenant governor are Democrat Hala Ayala and Republican Winsome Sears.

Running for attorney general are the incumbent Democrat, Mark Herring, and Republican Jason Miyares.

Across the state, voters will also choose House of Delegates candidates in Suffolk, thats for the 64th District, where incumbent Republican Emily Brewer and Democrat Michael Drewry are running, or the 76th District, where incumbent Democrat Clinton Jenkins has two challengers in Republican Mike Dillender and independent Craig Warren.

Across the city, there will also be elections for four constitutional offices. For Commonwealths Attorney, Craig Bales and Narendra Pleas are running for an open seat occasioned by Phil Fergusons retirement. For Treasurer, David Boyd faces off against incumbent Ron Williams. And Commissioner of the Revenue Susan Draper and Sheriff E.C. Harris are running unopposed for re-election.

Readers in the Sleepy Hole Borough will also find a special election for a School Board member to serve the remainder of a term ending on Dec. 31, 2024. Member David Mitnick stepped down from the board earlier this year, and Linda Johnson filled the seat by appointment, but running in the election to fill the remainder of the term are Heather Howell and Ebony Wright.

The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. You can visit elections.virginia.gov to find out where your polling place is, or you can call the Suffolk Voter Registrars Office at 757-514-7750.

If you have received a ballot by mail and not yet returned it, you can also drop it off at the registrars office, 440 Market St., first floor, or at any voting precinct on Election Day only up until 7 p.m.

Identification is needed to vote, so make sure you have one of the following with you. If you have none of these, you will be required to either sign an ID confirmation statement or vote a provisional ballot:

Election Day closings

Election Day is now a holiday in the state of Virginia, so some city offices will be closed. The following offices, facilities and services will observe the following schedule:

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