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Banning advertisement is fundamentally impossible in a free society because advertising is speech. You can't stop people from persuading other people. You can't
by themacguffinman 8y ago
Banning advertisement is fundamentally impossible in a free society because advertising is speech. You can't stop people from persuading other people. You can't realistically ban paid advertisement either, that just pushes it underground because it's so valuable that people will find a way to pay for it anyway. What you're asking for is a society free of financially-motivated influence, and I don't think that has/can/will ever exist.
Even if you could get rid of advertising, that just cedes control of advertising to random natural factors like geography or chance. It's not clear to me how that's a better state of affairs.
- thomasahle 8y agoThe alternative wouldn't be chance. In the ideal world we would have unbiased reviews to guide us. I very much agree with you however. We can't ban it. It just practically isn't possible. We should be able to regulate it though.