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In Lausanne, we have "le pub vous faites de-penser" stickers on many billboards. Translation: Advertising makes you de-think (a pun on "spend")
As a bilingual, found that one really nice. (minor nitpick: should be "la pub")
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Newspapers, magazines etc. Basically however they want.
Those are just other forms of advertising, and the entire print industry is dying anyway. Where's the real answer?
There was an iPhone ad draped over the Louvre a few months ago. I was shocked that the parisians of all people would debase themselves for Tim cook like that.
Despite large public outcry, etc.
Definitely some money changed hands to bribe the gov people involved to make it happen. Can't see any other excuse for it.
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I agree with you. And I suspect 9 out of 10 doctors do as well. I want to neuter advertising more than anything, but I can't think of any kind of "rule" we could establish that would make public mind hacking illegal.
Maybe we're focused too much on the content of the advertising rather than methodology of advertisement. First and foremost advertising is paid speech, that is speech that would not otherwise be made if one party was not being compensated in some way or another. Obviously this definition has tons of edge cases, but it's a good starting point IMO. While all of those coca cola ads are "true", they would be limited in s…
- Ads would be implicitly banned.
- Coca Cola couldn't bypass this rule by buying a taxi fleet because they aren't a taxi company.
- Newspapers could still operate even though journalists get paid for speech.
It could also help against other problems, depending on how narrow the purpose of a company has to be:
- ISPs have no incentive to violate net neutrality by privileging their own value added services (streaming etc) because their ISPs not streaming providers.
- If you subscribe to a folder that syncs you know that it will remain a folder that syncs. The behind it won't pivot to something you neither want not need, bloating the software till it bursts.
- Similarly: No incredible journeys anymore. Products don't get discontinued because they get in the way of $CORPORATION's plans.
- Chosing services because they aren't owned by Facebook actually works.
- Open protocols would be a thing again if we decouple clients and services. Edge case: Someone initially has to develop a client, a server and the protocol.
The idea is that by separating concerns, we enable customers to decide where their money goes and to freely chose between goods and services without getting artificially locked into any corporation's ecosystem.
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I wish we had that on the tube in London. Instead, you ride an escalator and see upwards of 20-maybe 30 video ads on the way. And that's before a marketing firm commissions the redesign of a tunnel so an entire stretch of walkway is 100% ad, like a shitty Disney ride. Or you arrive to one of the big terminals and gigantic screens are blasting even more ads at you. This is, of course, after you spend 40+ minutes on a…
Tube adverts also tend to play on people’s insecurities only making it worse
It's kind of an open secret that the city of Santa Barbara (CA, US) has banned several forms of public outdoor advertising: we have no billboards, no promotional posters, no taxi toppers... It's delightful, and very high on my list of reasons why I enjoy living here. Every time I leave I'm reminded how noisy space is when it's filled with advertisements. I wholeheartedly recommend others advocate for similar policies…
I’ll be back on Saturday and can’t wait for the peace, calm and beauty.
My wife did her PhD in out-of-home media (which very much included billboards). I have yet to find a more rabid opponent to out-of-home advertising (in general) and billboards (in particular), and she will explain why it is evil at the drop of the proverbial hat... As an amateur artist she will start with visual pollution and then veer into psychological damage... /grin
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But also most of the billboards are ads for cultural events, theatre, city-organised events, museums etc. I quite like that actually, where else would I find about some shows or things to do.
> I quite like that actually, where else would I find about some shows or things to do. How about in a free magazine which advertises all such events? Or a website that does similar? Also listings of "What's On" in more general media.
In Lausanne specifically, those billboards are also works of art in their own right so I do enjoy them.
Good on them. In Los Angeles, the tonier the neighborhood the fewer the billboards. The savagery of monster electronic signage and visual barrage increases substantially as one goes into the less affluent locations.
The giant jumbotrons by the airport and in Inglewood are insane.
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The law could be written so that individuals could sue companies that advertise with opinions rather than facts. Kind of like ow ADA laws are set up in California. The bureaucracy would be the court system.
False advertising is already prosecuted. So specifically here we need to adjust the "reasonability" interpretation. If they say Coca-Cola is refreshing, and I found it's not, courts now say it is reasonable to assume that the statement is subjective. If the reasonability test is changed they will no longer be able to advertise opinions.