Comment by SecretDreams
2 months ago
No paid advertising, whether that involves financial compensation, in kind gifts, or something else.
There would be no commercial ads online if google received no kickbacks to show ads. There would be no influencers, either. I'd be okay with non-profits and government agencies advertising benevolent things to us, like vaccinations.
The only hard part is to develop systems to actually ensure nobody is receiving compensation if they are showing a product.
I'd also be fine to make exceptions for internal advertising, e.g. you're already on the Google website and Google is advertising their own products/services to you.
Vaccine ads are a great example, in that large parts of the population consider them as fake propaganda. Trump supporters were up in arms against Biden/Dems for promoting vaccines during COVID. With your logic RFK Jr would be very happy!
Every good rule had exceptions. Advertising vaccines is fine.
Frankly, we should advertise more education - then maybe we wouldn't have some of our current issues.