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

submitted 1 week 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] 0 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I accused you of sophistry not of being sophisticated. You should look that word up to avoid this situation next time.

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 and now you are trying to “keep me on track” because you seemingly cannot admit you made a terrible analogy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No, unlike many people on Lemmy I seem to have an actual education from schools that teach history and economics

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Lmao, and all that history and economics taught you just these two lessons?

If something wasn't illegal previously, that makes it impossible to make it illegal
Marketing is cool and awesome, and totally a necessary part of society that has always existed in every society, so there's no point trying to ban it

Let me guess, you went to American schools? Learned all that America History (TM)?

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