In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for its own purposes to get people to join the army and other things.
TIM WUThere’s always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that’s the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can’t cure it.
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There’s always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far.
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More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between – and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.
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There’s always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that’s the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can’t cure it.
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BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.
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Wikipedia, a nonprofit, is an enormously popular website but has managed to operate without advertising. And, you know, maybe it’s a little simpler than Google and YouTube, but it does show there’s another way.
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I think that’s been really the key, the idea of trying to harness social capital for selling purposes. That we’ve let this happen so easily without clearly getting something in exchange is kind of amazing to me.
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