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by ajl666 1374 days ago
We're talking about advertising, not monopolies. That's your first fail.

Second, you present a false binary that we have either the duopoly, or the self-starting individual.

Marketing is a subset of Influence. Influence is a subset of the Arts. Arts being defined as non-axiomatic symbolic ordering.

You want to ignore all these distinctions, so you can stop annoying advertisers.

In the process of doing that, you either push advertising into the arts, or you kill the arts. Both are stupid. And that shows so are you.

You would dispense with the market, because you don't like that it's a meany.

You conflate because that's the standard tech scumbag method: you interpret 'restrictions' as 'damage' and route around it. Like a virus that crashes the whole system.

How would you find a book that didn't try to influence you? How would you find information that did not exist to influence? You are asking for an invisible pink unicorn. It does not exist. Your whole argument is stupid, sloppy, and sophomoric.