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| ▲ | andsoitis 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | But under what principle would you allow advertising, in general, online? That seems like an arbitrary penalty. What harm is being prevented by banning advertising, in general? | | |
| ▲ | Scarblac an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Allowing advertising quickly makes everything about getting more eyeballs and therefore more income from advertising. Users aren't the customer, they are the product. That directly leads to all these addictive dark patterns. | |
| ▲ | Eisenstein 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | All human laws are arbitrary in the sense that they have no natural precedents. We made them up because they make society better when we have them. Sometimes they end up not doing that so we change them as needed. In this case, a lot of people think society would be improved if we created this one. |
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