We're on a startup entrepreneur site. I'm not surprised it's seen as the lifeblood of the industry here. It sort of is.
replyAt the same time, this has the same energy of "if we release all the files, the system will collapse". Maybe we need the billionaires to feel some pain sometimes (even if yes, we'll feel more overall).
I work in ads... :-/
replyI think HGttG had a good solution for that involving a large spaceship.
replyI mean really I work in filmmaking. Ads just fund most of my business.
replyWhat do you do? Honest question
replyI work on the production end. I’m a producer and production manager for live-action ads.
replyWork in something else. I make significantly more doing poison ivy removal than I ever did or was ever going to working in tech.
replyAre you willing to share rough numbers? Totally understand if not, just curious. Been thinking about something like this to get away from the AI force-feeding.
replyFreedom of speech is a basic human right.
replyAds are speech.
>Ads are speech.
replyNo, they are not.
People have been brainwashed and legal systems have been paid and bought for to consider them as such, just like corporations have been whitewashed to be treated as "persons".
In any case, we regulate all other kinds of speech as well: explicit content, libel, classified information, cigarette ads, and so on.
Ads aren't free speech, they are the absence of it, because you are paid for a preselected speech.
replyWe already ban tobacco ads on tv (in the us) is their freedom of speech violated?
replyI don’t think you need to count companies being able to put any message out there as free speech.
That’s not even true in the United States (they’re ‘commercial speech’, which carries a still significant but lesser set of protections), never mind in Europe.
replyCommercial speech rights are still part of the "free speech" bundle of 1A protections.
reply> mmmmm yes thank you daddy may I have some more?
replyIf he's from the US, he's technically correct. That's the high level argument of Citizens United.
replyGranted, that's proven to be a horrible concept. So let's repeal that.