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.

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.
TIM WU

Google Manage Operate Wikipedia
There’s always going to be merchants who need to get their message out, but things have gone way too far.
TIM WU

Gone Message Need Way
BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.
TIM WU

Empowering Media Uplifting
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.
TIM WU

Cure Manage Way
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.
TIM WU

Idea Keys Thinking
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 WU

Army Government War
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.
TIM WU

Government Union Way

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