Old-time TV used to have ads for alcohol, cigarettes. Late-night shows, sometimes risky in europe (i.e. tits) had ads, lots of them. Google + Facebook, like the

Old-time TV used to have ads for alcohol, cigarettes. Late-night shows, sometimes risky in europe (i.e. tits) had ads, lots of them. Google + Facebook, like the puritanest of the puritan americans have made that a no-go. It's not clear who decided it first, but basically anything that the local church might frown upon has become unmonetizable and unadvertisable. Of course you won't have fun things when you do that. The article is not correct about metaverse. There 's still games like second-life and others (thousands of users roam in open and distributed worlds in opensimulator - see https://opensimworld.com https://opensimworld.com) . Facebook's leg-less (convenient alias for genital-less) avatars are of course not fun. When you kill all that's fun about virtual worlds (the ability to transcend this world and let imagination be truly free) then what do you expect people to do? simulate the misery of the office in 3d form? I seriously would like to hear what they expected to have