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>>iambat+(OP)
Advertising is a parasitic force on society. It sucks up your attention with a willful intention to change your purchasing behaviour, often knowing that the new behavior is worse for you.

If ads were merely about being informative, they would be boring. But ads want to manipulate, so they have to be flashy and appeal to your emotions.

They pollute your mental headspace, and have no place in a healthy society.

Let's ban billboards. And then let's follow that up with a general purpose ban on paid advertisement.

>>Taek+F1
What is an advertisement? Let’s see if we can define this before deciding on an all out ban.

>>whall6+B3
paid advertisement is easier to define, I think. If entity A pays entity B to show/tell me something, that's an ad.

>>Retr0i+N3
What is considered payment? Is that just money? Some advertisements could be paid for with goods services or favors. Which of those do we ban? Is proselyting religion advertising?

>>whall6+l4
> What is considered payment?

Bribery laws, SEC insider trading/collusion stuff...there's many existing examples for definitions for that, when the law doesn't want something to be for sale.