Comment by amazingamazing
2 months ago
chuckles while seeing this posted on Hacker News, meanwhile a "Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!" message appears at the bottom
in any case, ads are speech, and speech is protected. funny seeing this litigated over and over again here. it's actually concerning how many people on here want to ban speech because it's paid for.
Hardly the type of intrusive advertising that sparked these discussions.
How do you encode that in law such that it won't be abused?
That's a challenge I'd leave for much smarter people than me.
But it is a good point. If this were to make it into law then we need some sort of threshold.
funny enough, it's in the eye of the beholder.
Everything is but I think if we're to generalize then plastering an entire square in billboards and having a tiny text at the bottom of a very simple HTML page are two wildly different things.
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It is largely in the intent of the advertiser.
Unprotect corporate speech.