The world would be a far better place if advertising were greatly restricted - not just because it's annoying and bad for privacy, but also because it's bad for economies. Advertising is why you could work hard at a career your whole life and make less money than Kim K would for farting into a walkie-talkie (or less theoretically, less money than Karl Lagerfeld's cat made for posing on car's dashboard), and it also fuels much of the IP industry's work-once-get-paid-forever business model. It should be restr
Take product placement, for example. Could be anything from an item appearing a TV show, to some celebrity wearing a particular item of jewellery in a social media post. Is it an ad if they were not paid directly? Maybe they were given that jewellery as a gift, or maybe the store clerk was just really nice to them and gave them a discount on it.
How about reviews? Presumably you want legitimate reviews to be possible, so that people can find out what stuff is good and what is junk before buying it. Will only accredited professionals be allowed to review things, or will user reviews still be allowed on sites like Amazon?
In any case whatever rules you come up with to enforce this stuff would probably be circumvented by simply moving the product placement and dodgy reviews overseas.
Same with any law, you can only do so much to prevent offshoring. Straight-up intentional product placement should obviously be banned, it wouldn't be as difficult to police as insider trading or bribery. Things like celebrities being given expensive gifts in the hope of them being photographed with them would be much harder to control, the best bet might be to ban gift-giving from companies or their employees of company products to anyone but registered charities.
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Advertising should be greatly restricted (Score:5, Interesting)
The world would be a far better place if advertising were greatly restricted - not just because it's annoying and bad for privacy, but also because it's bad for economies. Advertising is why you could work hard at a career your whole life and make less money than Kim K would for farting into a walkie-talkie (or less theoretically, less money than Karl Lagerfeld's cat made for posing on car's dashboard), and it also fuels much of the IP industry's work-once-get-paid-forever business model. It should be restr
Re:Advertising should be greatly restricted (Score:2)
Could be difficult to define advertising though.
Take product placement, for example. Could be anything from an item appearing a TV show, to some celebrity wearing a particular item of jewellery in a social media post. Is it an ad if they were not paid directly? Maybe they were given that jewellery as a gift, or maybe the store clerk was just really nice to them and gave them a discount on it.
How about reviews? Presumably you want legitimate reviews to be possible, so that people can find out what stuff is good and what is junk before buying it. Will only accredited professionals be allowed to review things, or will user reviews still be allowed on sites like Amazon?
In any case whatever rules you come up with to enforce this stuff would probably be circumvented by simply moving the product placement and dodgy reviews overseas.
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Same with any law, you can only do so much to prevent offshoring. Straight-up intentional product placement should obviously be banned, it wouldn't be as difficult to police as insider trading or bribery. Things like celebrities being given expensive gifts in the hope of them being photographed with them would be much harder to control, the best bet might be to ban gift-giving from companies or their employees of company products to anyone but registered charities.