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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)
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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This part of the chain is me calling out. your false equivalence as you compared graffiti to river dumping which you keep trying to claim isn’t invalid

Because I never claimed they were equivalent, I said that river dumping laws are an example of how to make something illegal, after your dumb ass claimed it was impossible to make advertising illegal because it's been around for a long time.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And the fakse equivalence is we were talking about graffiti at that point. Hence the false equivalence between them. We have had ads like billboards for thousands of years in some places. Anywhere you find a whole bunch of people you find ads for the extra stuff people have. The only times when this isn't true is when no one has extra stuff they don't need.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

So do you work for the marketing industry or is it a loved one of yours?