• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      They are making billboards illegal in most places. And it’s a pretty awesome improvement I must say.

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      1 day ago

      Oh they had roadside billboards in 1950. And they were a blight back then. Advertising is a cancer.

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          5 hours ago

          Haha what? I’m not burning billboards and slaughtering CEOs. I’m just sick to death of all these ads. Advertising is a distributed global brainwashing campaign, by the wealthy, against the working class. They don’t hire psychologists to exploit our lizard brains for no reason, and that’s why it needs to be outlawed.

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              4 hours ago

              You mean that local mom and pop store that was briefly allowed to exist to maintain the illusion before they got crushed by a corporate juggernaut?

              When a society allows itself to be psychologically manipulated in such an all pervasing manner, the people participate in their own subjugation and call it freedom.

              There exists one of the most powerful groups on the planet who considers it their right to sneak inside your mind to twist your decision making ability to whatever amoral ends they like. They pump their filth into your head your every waking hour, and they’ll get into your dreams once they have the technology. Rather than revulsion and disgust, your reaction to this is “ok, but maybe just a little less than they do now.”

              What a surprise.

              No. There is nowhere in the world more sacred than our own minds, and no one else has the right to worm their way inside, en masse, to alter them as they will.

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            15 hours ago

            That’s a generalization. The White Rose was doing “advertising”, and I think that’s all but “by the wealthy, against the working class”.

            Advertising has its place and can be beneficial to society, it just needs regulations (admittedly, A LOT of them).

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              4 hours ago

              The advertising industry had their chance to run an ethical business model.

              Now they have their own corporate spy agencies and propaganda networks.

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                44 minutes ago

                I know, and that sucks. But outright banning something that has its benefits has always been detrimental (not to mention, they’d just find sneakier ways to do it and it’d be worse for everyone). We need regulations, a lot of them, not banning entirely.

                Plus who are we kidding, everyone in power is so deep into the advertising/propaganda industry that neither of those options have a decent chance of happening in our lifetime.

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                  Oh I certainly wasn’t proposing a practical transition method away from it. Nor do I think our authorities would willingly give up that gravy train. I’m just saying it’s an offense against freedom, privacy, and informed consent. Frankly, aadvertising threatens the stability of civilization itself, and it must be reigned in to ensure any kind of positive future. But a near total ban would be even better.