Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
This odd exactly like skywriting.
Once it got popular it got really popular for advertising, then people got mad and it was an affront to God and legislators were forced to shut it down.
But also, after the novelty it stopped being effective and it just made people angry.
Now, arguably 2026’s companies care less about making people mad than any time since like the coal wars. But I still think you can’t keep posting people off forever and expect good brand outcomes. And if you can, you don’t need ads do you?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
This has nothing to do with sky advertising. It just made me a little happy to know that there’s at least one other person out in the world that’s read a history book at some point.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
It doesn’t but I mean in a corporations not feeding any consequence way.
Obviously ads are not like company towns or the coal union suppression.
But I do think corporations were only more hostile to people in that era. And modern companies have zero fear of repercussions, because they face none.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah, well.
Unfortunately it’s a deliberately untaught period in our history, so the vast majority of Americans have never heard of it and probably can’t conceive of literally going to war against corporations, so it makes me happy whenever I come across someone who’s aware of it.