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How does the energy usage compare to digital advertising and cloud computing?

• Ekaros 5y ago
  One starts to wonder should we just make advertising illegal. As it seems, it is waste in both paper form and as online adds with all the tracking involved...
  • PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
    what's the line between advertising and protected speech? trick question: there is no line.
    • maxwell 5y ago
      Billboards aren't banned in your state? https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-is-billboard-advertising-not-allowed-in-maine-vermont-hawaii-and-alaska https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-is-billboard-a...
    • sio8ohPi 5y ago
      The supreme court, unanimously, in Rowan v United States Post Office Department, "categorically reject[ed] the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another."
      • PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
        "Consequently, a mailer’s right to communicate ceased at the mailbox of an unwilling addressee." I would be very suprised if SCOTUS would agree this ruling supports any legislative attempt to preemptively block "communication".