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

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 07, 2025
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ChattyG (after Bruegel the Elder)

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 …

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