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chuckles while seeing this posted on Hacker News, meanwhile a "Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!" message appears at the bottom

in any case, ads are speech, and speech is protected. funny seeing this litigated over and over again here. it's actually concerning how many people on here want to ban speech because it's paid for.

>>amazin+(OP)
Hardly the type of intrusive advertising that sparked these discussions.

>>INTPen+f1
funny enough, it's in the eye of the beholder.

>>INTPen+f1
How do you encode that in law such that it won't be abused?

>>amazin+D1
Everything is but I think if we're to generalize then plastering an entire square in billboards and having a tiny text at the bottom of a very simple HTML page are two wildly different things.

>>the_ot+Y2
That's a challenge I'd leave for much smarter people than me.

But it is a good point. If this were to make it into law then we need some sort of threshold.

>>INTPen+93
not really. you could argue that if you're 2-3 feet from a monitor the text on the bottom of a full screen HN page takes more of your vision than a billboard 500ft away.

>>amazin+D1
It is largely in the intent of the advertiser.

>>amazin+(OP)
Unprotect corporate speech.