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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

By growing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

How do they grow if they can't tell anyone about their products or services?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

By telling them, who said you cant? Communication and advertisement are two different things.

Its crazy that by no advertisement you immediately jumped to you cant tell anyone about anything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By telling them, who said you cant?

By telling who? And How?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Communication isnt advertisement. Depends on the type of business dude. Theres a thing called word of mouth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

And how do you do that en-masse? How do you spread the word to people by word of mouth who haven't heard of your product/service?

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