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"The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create personalized, reality-distorting bubbles..."

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Kōdō Simone · What If We Made Advertising Illegal?What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

@minorusaba I did not know we had advertising to directly blame for the Thatcher years. Good lord.

Thanks for the link, horrible reading 😉