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0 pointsFnoord4y ago0 comments

What annoys me most is advertising on highway and in traffic. I am not allowed to use a smartphone because it distracts me; fair enough. What about safety on the road though? All these signals are pure noise, irrelevant to traffic.

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matheusmoreira4y ago

Safety takes a back seat to corporate profits of course. Who cares if some schmuck crashes his car because he was looking at a billboard depicting a nearly nude woman, right? The need to sell products to these people is all consuming, they just gotta do it and all other concerns don't really matter to them.

shukantpal4y ago

Should we cut down all trees next to road? They’re a beautiful distraction.

FnoordOP4y ago

Its voluntary and you need to deliberately watch them. They're not planted to catch your attention in ANNOYING ways.

Supermancho4y ago

I would say the same about anything on the road that isn't specifically for safety/traffic shaping.

> They're not planted to catch your attention in ANNOYING ways.

Even some of traffic shaping signage are specifically designed to be that way.

More importantly, this is about a freedom of expression. If I want to yell about my fruit farm or hold a sign for your product; is that different? How does the freedom to express yourself contend with some idea of limiting "commercial advertisement"?

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