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>>smnrg+(OP)
To go halfway to the extreme of this article, I think banning large-scale billboards in my city would make a big difference.

It feels like having a calmer public space is more in the public interest than reminding them to drink Miller Lite.

>>iambat+74
I love this article because I think this is the conversation we should be having. Lots of advertising is harmful, some of it is useful on balance, and some of it is too hard to ban without infringing on other desirable speech. But I do think we should be critically thinking about all advertising and outlawing certain flavors of it.

Billboards let landlords skim extra money by making the public space significantly more hostile to everyone else. Fuck em.