Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities

Re:Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities by rurp on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:19PM (#38634257)

> Maybe you are an enlightened individual and want to put an end to consumerism and society. In the meantime I personally still buy things and shop.

It's interesting to me that you connect these things so strongly, as if anyone opposed to public ads are also opposed to all of modern commerce. I guess it's a sign of how pervasive the ad industry has become in certain areas, that it seems inseparable from normal business. Fortunately it is quite possible to have vibrant free markets in areas that are not plastered in corporate advertisements.

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Re:Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities by legitster on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:26PM (#38634352)

I'm was only being a little flip there. Taken straight from their website:

> We see the fight against billboards as part of a wider struggle for social, ecological and economic justice.

So to be completely fair, I am responding to the case that they are making that combatting billboards is just one piece of an intersectional fight against corporations and injustice.

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Re:Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities by dantyti on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:33PM (#38634443)

Well, yes. Previously, anyone could put up a poster on a public Morris column in my city, now all the public space is owned by jcdecaux.

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