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Yes, and Fox is very big on health scare ads for older people. Elderly people lose their clarity gradually over time and not necessarily as a discretely detecta
by threatofrain 6y ago
Yes, and Fox is very big on health scare ads for older people. Elderly people lose their clarity gradually over time and not necessarily as a discretely detectable moment.
Just as we restrict advertising to kids so ought we restrict advertising to the elderly.
- pavel_lishin 6y agoIn my limited experience, it's not just the elderly falling for this stuff.
- wegs 6y agoThere isn't a robust economics argument for advertising. We're dumping a bunch of economic resources (lost otherwise productive time) into an industry that serves to distort free markets. There are claims of letting people know about products, or "driving consumer demand," but they fall apart as you dig deeper. It's not clear how it ought to be regulated, but it ought to be regulated. It ought have been regulated a long, long time go, actually. When banner ads popped up on the Internet in the nineties was a much easier time than 2020, when we have trillion-dollar businesses pushing back.