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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

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)?