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How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal? (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 day ago by alonsohmtz@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I want to get as far away from the ad economy and ad culture as possible. Since there's a 0% chance the morons supporting it will ever learn from their mistakes, I'm starting to realize the only option going forward is to create new places where we aren't stuck with the "tunnel vision of the stupids."

It doesn't have to be large, start small and work our way out. It also doesn't have to be expensive. It shouldn't be too difficult to enforce a ban on physical advertisements within the borders, but digital advertising is a whole 'nother ballgame.

Even for a small town, would it be possible to sue companies for running ads in it? Similar to how the same company will show different content on their web services depending on where the user connects from to adhere to local laws. It would be fine if they just blocked connections from where advertising is illegal, but it's not okay for them to show ads to our residents.

Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Some places already ban physical ads. There are better sources than these but this is what I found so far:

Digital ads would be harder to get rid of. At the individual level, it's relatively easy to disable an adblocker if something breaks. That's harder to do if you block it city wide.

A PSA campaign might work better to get people to turn on adblockers

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Billboards are illegal in the state of Vermont.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Bermuda bans all physical advertising as well.

[–] matsdis@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Also in Europe. I've heard about Grenoble (France), but there seem to be more now. Check out adfreecities.org.uk too. Most don't seem to ban 100% of all ads, but close enough for me.

Maybe people who are used to this will become less tolerant of online ads, too.