So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

@slothrop ermahgerd, amazeballs.  

Got a link?

@rysiek Someone put up the text on Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSVUwlTGIywViXvKoJ6A3q7tNsUO44XfBxP9kKv83Sm0--GiAo-rXjrWSzBsH3OwQ/pub

Apparently, Apple also is an anti-advertising extremist. That´s a bit of a pity. I feel much less avant-garde now.

It Starts Here_CEO Speech_finalfinal.docx

@slothrop dear lord.

> Takeaway 1: Extremists are winning the battle for hearts and minds in Washington D.C. and beyond. We cannot let that happen.

> So let’s take each of these one by one. We can start with The Political extremists focused on making “Big Tech'' their sworn enemy.

Wow. Just wow.