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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

The traditional argument pro-advertising—that it provides consumers with necessary information—hasn't been valid for decades.

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[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Would @douglasg14b@lemmy.world please share your thoughts on the response from @Maldreamer@lemmy.world?

Of course if these ideas were ever put into practice, they'd require the establishment of definitions, scope, parameters, exceptions, consequences, etc.

I think a lot of us understand the spirit of the OP, and you're showing us you aren't on the same page or even opened the book.

Sure, if the offered idea was to abolish every philosophically tangential advertisment, then you'll be the advertisor of reason when we advertise bans on flowers' colors because they advertise to pollinators, or bans on babies' cries because they're advertising their want of nourishment.