Comment by naasking

> you are self-imposing a restriction that will give other nations an economic advantage and jeopardizing long-term sovereignty.

I don't see how you reached this conclusion, unless you think advertising/propaganda yields bet positive outcomes more than net negative, which seems contentious.

Here's one way it could be false: the wisdom of the crowds only really works when groups of people independently reach their own conclusions, because people who don't understand an issue are randomly distributed around the correct answer and so they all cancel each other out, leaving only the people who do understand an issue to cluster around the correct decision.

Propaganda/advertising works directly against this, thus undercutting the usefulness of the wisdom of crowds.