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Originally posted by Joe
If I were in charge of making rules (which luckily I am not) I'd say:
1) No advertising in the natural world, that ...
2) No advertising that intrudes into one's private space, ...
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The concept of advertising is to purchase the right to delivery. For example, those plastic garbage signs plastered on all phone poles reading "Finally affordable insurance" are the classic example of what is illegal. They don't pay for the right to tresspass on Verizon or Excelon property. They violate zoning codes. They exist in classic MBA philosophy - the purpose of a business is only to get rich - screw the environment and the customer.
Legal and ethical advertising pays for your TV and radio broadcasts, pays for you mail delivery, pays for your phone book, pays for road repair (taxes on billboards), pays for your free internet sites, pays for your newspaper, etc.
It is the scum spammer who wants free adverstising without paying for your e-mailbox or computer. It is the grafitti trasher who plasters sticky labels on phone booths and WaWa doors. They want the value of advertising without paying a carrier (or property owner) that they steal from.
Why do telemarketers exist? So many are so scummy as to purchase from unsolicited phone calls. Some of us are such mental midgets as to give out credit card numbers for those purchases. Make it expensive for telemarketers. Give erroneous names, addresses, and credit card numbers so that they spend 15 minutes trying to solve the problems.
I have patience with poll takers. But I attack purveyors of a 'free newspaper delivery this week' or a 'free week in the Poconos' harassement calls. And don't even begin to ask what happens when a religious extremist tries to convert me. Boy do they get taught a new religion. Really. Not harrassed. They are taught a new religion.