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in what way, except for the grammatical structure of the phrase, is the war on ads similar to the war on drugs?



As I alluded to, in both cases, there's a demand to be met, and there's a strong social resistance to having that demand to be met.

Advertisers annoy 99.9% of us, but there's the 0.1% that demand something that they don't yet know about. There's money to be made, and satisfaction to be had, if only the connection of knowledge could be made.

So I'm saying, perhaps instead of thinking in terms of blocking the knowledge, which will tend to get there one way or another, I wonder if there's a solution in terms of finding a less disruptive way to get the knowledge there. It would make advertising less lucrative.


you're not making your case very well, these are still superficial parallels.




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