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Advertising works because speech works.

Regulating speech is a cure worse than the disease.




There's a difference between carefully earning an audience versus forcing your message upon billions of people within seconds.

Advertising is commercial speech and already regulated by the FTC (in the US) which is why you can't say false things for an ad. The problem is that it has not been updated to deal with modern digital advertising's speed and scale.




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