"Outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now," says philosopher

Advertising is “the machinery of mass delusion,” says writer Kōdō Simone. He calls for abolishing all advertising — not regulating it, but making it completely illegal.

Banning advertising would eliminate the financial incentives behind addictive digital content and reality-distorting algorithms. He claims an advertising free world would force both commercial and political actors to engage more honestly with the public. — Read the rest

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