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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 2 months ago

cross-posted to:
brainworms@lemm.ee

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.

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That reminds me of when we used to use the phone book.

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