I want to get as far away from the ad economy and ad culture as possible. Since there’s a 0% chance the morons supporting it will ever learn from their mistakes, I’m starting to realize the only option going forward is to create new places where we aren’t stuck with the “tunnel vision of the stupids.”
It doesn’t have to be large, start small and work our way out. It also doesn’t have to be expensive. It shouldn’t be too difficult to enforce a ban on physical advertisements within the borders, but digital advertising is a whole 'nother ballgame.
Even for a small town, would it be possible to sue companies for running ads in it? Similar to how the same company will show different content on their web services depending on where the user connects from to adhere to local laws. It would be fine if they just blocked connections from where advertising is illegal, but it’s not okay for them to show ads to our residents.
Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!
Assuming you’re in America, it’s impossible to outright ban ads.
You can make whatever laws you want, but those laws can’t supersede the Constitution. And the Constitution says that companies and people have the right to free speech. And that the government, I.e the laws you just created, can’t infringe on that (with some reasonable exceptions).
At best you can make certain advertising types illegal. I lived in a wonderful town that banned roadway signs, for example. You could ban billboards over a certain height. You could regulate the color palette used for signs on shops. You could say no signs posted on roadside easements.
So progress could be made, but not an outright ban.
Commercial speech is unprotected speech.