I want to get as far away from the ad economy and ad culture as possible. Since there’s a 0% chance the morons supporting it will ever learn from their mistakes, I’m starting to realize the only option going forward is to create new places where we aren’t stuck with the “tunnel vision of the stupids.”

It doesn’t have to be large, start small and work our way out. It also doesn’t have to be expensive. It shouldn’t be too difficult to enforce a ban on physical advertisements within the borders, but digital advertising is a whole 'nother ballgame.

Even for a small town, would it be possible to sue companies for running ads in it? Similar to how the same company will show different content on their web services depending on where the user connects from to adhere to local laws. It would be fine if they just blocked connections from where advertising is illegal, but it’s not okay for them to show ads to our residents.

Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    2 hours ago

    Before we get to banning advertising though we first need to figure out how to connect people to businesses that have goods and services they actually want to seek out

    No.

    Advertising is malign. We don’t stop to consider how the poor cotton farmer will harvest his cotton before abolishing slavery. We don’t stop to consider how the lead mine owner will make a profit before we swap to unleaded fuel. We don’t stop to consider how the poor government officials will afford their expensive lifestyle before we ban bribes. We prevent the harm. If anyone is benefitting from harming people, losing out on that benefit is the most lenient punishment they should ever hope for.