= Regulate the fuck out of advertising
It should be illegal to give someone money to advertise your product.
We should just use tags and upvote-based algorithms.
Advertisement is a form of <brainwashing>.
TODO find <Sergey Brin> quote bout advertising being a form of perverting search engine ranking neutrality. In other words, there are neutral metrics to what people find good, like links and upvotes. And then advertising is a way to pervert that to someone's profit.
Sometimes <Ciro Santilli> thinks advertising should be on-subscription only, but that is too restrictive, e.g. imagine the local business owner who wears a t-shirt of their business.
* https://www.quora.com/Should-we-ban-all-advertising-Why
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