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		keiferski on Feb 10, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019) The discussion is about eliminating ads entirely, as a concept, not restricting bad ones. Bad or deliberately misleading/lying ones already largely get punished. So I'm not sure what the issue is?

cess11 on Feb 10, 2025 [–]

If you can stop some ads now, then you could stop all ads through the same mechanisms, no need for 'full government control over media' or whatever.

I thought that was a rather clear argument in what I wrote but apparently I was mistaken.

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