DeadWorld@lemm.eeM to BrainWorms@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 month ago

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

6

cross-posted to:
mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

89

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

DeadWorld@lemm.eeM to BrainWorms@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 month ago

6

cross-posted to:
mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/309211

Comments

Chat

anindefinitearticle [doe/deer, any]@hexbear.net
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
9·
1 month ago
You would need to make illegal both advertising and the associated spyware and data collection infrastructure.

BrainWorms@lemm.ee

brainworms@lemm.ee

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !brainworms@lemm.ee

Community locked: only moderators can create posts. You can still comment on posts.

Hey, welcome to BrainWorms.

This is a place where I post interesting things that I find and cant categorize into one of the main subs I follow. Enjoy a front seat as i descend into madness

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

9 users / day
128 users / week
1.22K users / month
3K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
1.55K subscribers
830 Posts
3K Comments
Modlog

mods:
DeadWorld@lemm.ee