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Seriously how is advertisement legal? If you truly believe in free market then surely you must agree advertisement is a mass manipulation technique that should
by southerntofu 6y ago
Seriously how is advertisement legal?
If you truly believe in free market then surely you must agree advertisement is a mass manipulation technique that should be illegal as anti-competitive technique (reinforces dominant positions).
If you're an anarchist/socialist then surely you've read or seen some talks by Noam Chomsky about "Manufacturing consent" and by now you want to burn down every TV station, bank and police station you can think of.
Even if you don't mind printed ads, if you're just a little bit concerned about privacy, you must be out of your mind that certain data obtained about you may be used against you and your loved ones
Who's left to defend that kind of degrading practice? How can we put enough social pressure on these people so they stop and develop healthier activities than to hijack our brains remotely?
- pessimizer 6y agoAdvertisement is good because it lets me know who is supplying goods and services I may desire or need. There are a lot of methods allowed in advertising that are basically fraud, and a lot of methods to deliver advertising that are basically stalking. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't be allowed to post what they have for sale.
- southerntofu 6y ago> goods and services I may desire or need Well the thing is the amount of resources spent on advertisement is usually inversely proportional to the amount of resources spent on "goods and services i may desire or need". I'm not saying it should be illegal to post about what you do. But advertisement is paying people to relay your message they couldn't care less about. It's not the same as people recommending products/services, although the frontier has become blurrier now with all those "sponsored" articles/videos.
- TchoBeer 6y agoIs the only way you out about things you want through ads? I don't even remember the last time I made a purchase because of an advertisement.
- twitch-chat 6y agoThis can't possibly be true. Why do you think Apple is so popular among tech circles? It's not because everyone collectively decides to read their privacy policies. Apple has to actively advertise they don't collect data. The simple act of making a spectacle of their products announcements are advertisements. Not clickable ads in a website but an ad regardless. They could quietly release products every year by updating their website but that wouldn't sell nearly as much...