part of my long-held "it's us or them" stance re: the online ad industry is that ultimately all speech will become, in the name of corporate comfort, as anodyne and contentless and unchallenging to power as advertising itself, if they continue to control the web.
https://www.404media.co/advertisers-dont-want-sites-like-jezebel-to-exist/
The only place the fnords don't exist are the advertisements, giving people that sense of relief and a lack of urgency and a desire to read more advertisements.
But for all that it was a gimmick in RAW's Illuminatus!, we need to know the dangers and threats out there, and not just stay happily wrapped in cotton wool and laden with soothing consumerism.
@jplebreton@mastodon.social
stay off the web they influence and they will have to play catch-up.
@jplebreton reminds me of how the old workers union newspapers and radio stations were killed off by advertisers soft boycotts.
@jplebreton 100% agree. The sanitation of the internet to appease the advertisers must stop. It's the lobotomization of human culture.