I think society needs to have a reckoning around advertisement and decide what kinds of ads are moral and societally good. There are lots of categories I'd lov

I think society needs to have a reckoning around advertisement and decide what kinds of ads are moral and societally good. There are lots of categories I'd love to ban if king: - All advertisements to children - Advertisements for prescription drugs - Advertisements that intend to evoke emotional responses rather than inform: --- Many ads are designed to make the viewer feel inferior so they want to buy the product to remedy the negative emotions the ads caused --- Many ads seek to irrationally associate a brand with a positive feeling, which overrides consumers ability to make rational purchasing decisions --- Many ads seek vague 'brand awareness' without any informational content I think there is a narrow case around informative advertisements "Hey this product or service exists, it might be something you want" that can be societally useful, but the vast majority of video and print ads are not doing that.