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Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b... by dredmorbius on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:29PM (#17200470)
False dichotomy. There are other options.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

Information is a pure public good. Finance it as such.

Joseph Stiglitz, "Knowledge as a Global Public Good," in Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, Marc A. Stern (eds.), United Nations Development Programme, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 308-325.

http://s1.downloadmienphi.net/file/downloadfile6/151/1384343...

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Re:Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad b... by fauigerzigerk on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:21PM (#17200844)
>False dichotomy. There are other options.

I didn't say there were no other options. I just criticised the one option we would very likely end up with by default if advertising were to be curbed somehow.

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