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!
I think a ban on displaying ads in public spaces, especially big billboards, would be a really good start. A ban on online ads would be more difficult, because AFAIK ad targeting isn’t actually that good; you’d think that would be their bread and butter, what all the data collection is actually about, but at least a couple of years ago it was actually really difficult to buy online ads that only get shown to people in one city (e.g. if you’re a political party and want to advertise in a local election). Seems like the ad syndicalists just do whatever and then lie about it. If true, they’d need to overhaul their tech to adhere to a local-level ad ban.
Some media is also primarily paid by ads, like radio and local newspapers. Might need to subsidize those, and IDK how you’d even deal with radio and newspaper from outside of the local area - radio especially is built on the idea that access is unrestricted, and one radio antenna can service an area the size of a small country.