• Windex007@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s amazing how communication mediums seem to become so saturated by marketing that it essentially destroys them.

    Phone calls, mail, fax, email.

    At the very least, I’m extremely disappointed in the government for destroying phone calls (or standing back and just letting them get destroyed). The nature of a phone network lends itself well to placing responsibility on the caller. Absolutely enforceable. No will to do so.

    Like, you actually need a permit to do door to door sales. That’s GOOD. Copy-paste that legislation for phones.

    I’d be 100x happier with my tax dollars hunting down and punishing phone abusers than funding a speed trap.

    • Beethedude@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Advertising should be illegal outside very specific instances, imo.

      When a person needs a thing, they should seek it out.

      That we’re constantly bombarded by marketing is not spoken of enough as the tragedy that it truly is.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Don’t forget the entire internet, newspapers, telephone listings, radio, television, movies, video games, every surface of a store, public spaces like parks and sidewalks, and probably your dreams in the near future

      Advertising is cancer and it destroys anything that tolerates it for even a moment. An industry with zero ethics or morals. If you work in advertising you’re a disgusting scumbag piece of shit and your parents are ashamed. No amount of money is worth it and the world would be objectively better without you in it.

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        1 day ago

        I think like pretty much every industry, it will push whatever the boundaries of legality are to maximize profit. I think advertising in particular has none of the public interest guardrails that every other industry has. I think I could be cool with advertising as a concept if there were actual limits.

        I’m pretty sure in my lifetime someone is going to somehow put an advertisement on the surface of the moon and the world will collectively and righteously lose thier shit. Why wait?

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      2 days ago

      I am so fucking mad email is ruined by telemarketing. It would be so fucking convenient if not for spam. Kinda hate that it’s how you sign up to anything now too like some weird id.