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Sure, a sandwich board outside your restaurant seems nice, but it seems like the actually-socially-useful examples are few enough that you could get through them all no problem.
Ironically street signage is generally one of the more regulated forms of advertising. Those guys that spin signs were originally there to get around those laws.
Sure. I was thinking of advertising in media but I don’t have a problem with a sign on your business or very basic things like that. So I guess not quite all advertising but the advertising industry needs to go.
I have a problem with those signs, they're pollution of a public space.
I remember when Sao Paulo banned all outdoor advertising and their city became beautiful again.
Further, when nearly everyone has a GPS map to wherever they want to go in their pockets, do we really NEED giant fuckoff signs so people know where their local McDonald's is anymore?
i used to live near a suburb that banned billboards as well as 'great signs' (the big and usually tall lit-up signs for businesses) over a certain height (they all had to be fairly short and set back from the roadways). there was also no overhead telephone or power lines there. everywhere should be like that.
This seems to be mainly about billboards. I’m talking mainly about a sign on your door that explains what your business is. I hadn’t initially thought of this as a form of advertising but it technically is.
I’d be open to discussing a broader ban but my current thinking is that this very basic type of advertising which is primarily informational may be do more good than harm.
Ah gotcha, yeah, the sign on the door shouldn't be banned, I agree. That might get confusing if nothing is labelled past an address.
Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool. That medicine is far worse then the disease. I'm going to say at least a very plain description and open/closed signs need to be up.
Las Vegas wouldn't be the same without all the lights. Where I live there's a limit to one moderately-sized sandwich board, and I quite like it. Somewhere else they might want totally bare streets. All could be accommodated.
You know, surveillance of those devices is a choice, right? They're actually a tool with surveillance slapped on top, it's literally just a computer (and on an Android you can even install different operating systems with surveillance blocked). And what industry wants to surveil those devices the most? Oh yeah, fuck me, it's MARKETING!
I did say "at present".
You can install LineageOS (assuming you have a reflashable piece of hardware) and run it in airplane mode, it's true, although that itself is slowly getting more difficult as everything gets app-ified. Just doing stuff the boomer way is easier in practice, in my experience - which, again, is at present.
If we're allowed completely changing the way the telecom and tech sectors operate ahead of time, yeah, I guess we can get rid of physical signs and just look at the world through our phone screens. That's obviously a taller order than adding a single regulation, though.