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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by djoldman on Saturday April 05, 2025 @02:32PM (#43595570)
In the communications industry there are SOME fairly bright definitions:

- Advertising and marketing are when an entity pays some other entity to transmit content

- Public relations is when an entity, without paying, causes another entity to transmit content

- Public affairs is when an entity causes a governmental entity to consume specific content at minimum, up to possibly influencing decisions. It should go without saying that this is without paying as well, otherwise it's corruption/bribery

Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by kodt on Saturday April 05, 2025 @05:59PM (#43597150)
>- Advertising and marketing are when an entity pays some other entity to transmit content

So all usage of the internet would apply?

Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by djoldman on Saturday April 05, 2025 @07:07PM (#43597542)
I guess I could have been more specific.

...an entity A pays some other entity B to transmit some specific content to a third party to induce the third party to take action that benefits the paying entity A.