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> Maybe we should just ban advertising to people so no company can try to hook young people on their products to expand their markets. Yes, we should. Adverti
by jodrellblank 7y ago
> Maybe we should just ban advertising to people so no company can try to hook young people on their products to expand their markets.
Yes, we should.
Advertising works. It influences you, affects your behaviour. To extract money from you. For someone else's benefit. Without your prior informed consent.
We should ban it.
- bobwaycott 7y agoYeah, exactly. That’s what I’m driving at. At the same time, I find it a bizarre bit of cognitive dissonance when people blame the product, and not the people in the company behind it. In most cases, at least. The product isn’t pushing itself on the public. It’s people doing that work, and people should be held responsible for it. Yes, there are bad products—but they aren’t making themselves. It’s strange that we find it so easy to think up ways to ban a product, but never consider banning the advertising that pushes it on everyone and convinces them they just have to have it.