aquafunk

aquafunk , 1 month ago

many times I've seen a new post and said "I'd buy a pile of that as stickers and put them up all over 'amazonville' (nobody calls it that- the chunk of Seattle where scamazon raized the old, gloriously grungy bars, affordable apartments and light industrial buildings, replacing it all with techbro filled, sterile glass towers and impossibly priced luxury condos)

if there weren't constant corposecurity wandering about, posters would be perfect. but there are plenty of light poles adorned with bright, colorful show posters in the surrounding neighborhoods, just begging to have some FOSS war posters tacked up on them

aquafunk , 1 month ago

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/dc841b9e-5cc2-4e6e-8912-10513a4a3d9e.png

aquafunk , 1 month ago

downvotes are not to express disagreement!

so many comments here about adding regulations and "this should be illegal" and, yes, those may be a valid way to curb this behavior

but customers willing to leave a company for bad behavior, customers wary of new products without asdurances they wont just become useless, non-reusable e-waste could also effectively curb this behavior

just because you want to outsource all of your product and company research to a law or regulation, and want to be able to blindly buy products and just hope the company doesn't make bad choices in every regard but quartly profits doesn't mean it is the only effective check & balance

aquafunk , 1 month ago

whoops. maybe I should read the entire thing next time

aquafunk , 1 month ago

The way I understood it is a commercial for McD in the US isnt required to have real food; a commercial for McD's "whatever" has to have the actual item being advertised, but can be so meticulously crafted, you'd never see one like that in the wild. A commercial for a grocery chain, for example- most/all of of the food you see is props made to look like the most appetizing food youve ever dreamed of.

Who knows if this is enforced. NPR and PBS stations are specifically prohibited from "sponsorship" messages mentioning a specific product or service, and they've been ignoring that for decades.