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Re: Advertisers Should Pay You

From Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Advertisers Should Pay You
Date 2016-07-10 19:31 +0000
Organization Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
Message-ID <dufm3rFamjoU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <P4pzZvlNJoSH6ZbfeDpSxGxY@dont-email.me>

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On 2016-07-10, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2015/07/advertisers-should-pay-you.html
>
> Quoting from the URL above:
>
>    Advertising is a natural resource extraction industry, like a fishery.
>    Its business is the harvest and sale of human attention. We are the fish
>    and we are not consulted.
>
>    Two problems result from this. The solution to both requires legal
>    recognition of the property rights of human beings over our attention.
>
>    First, advertising imposes costs on individuals without permission or
>    compensation. 

Which is why I feel no guilt whatsoever about running Adblock+.

"I'll happily watch your advertising. How much will you pay me to do that?"


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Advertisers Should Pay You Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-07-10 15:36 +0000
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-07-10 20:08 +0100
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-10 19:31 +0000
    Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-07-10 21:50 +0200
      Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-07-10 21:17 +0000
    Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-07-10 22:30 +0100
      Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-07-11 09:07 +0200
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-11 13:22 +1000
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-11 08:47 -0500
  Re: Advertisers Should Pay You Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2016-08-25 13:48 -0400

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