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A Tobin tax was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another. It was suggested by James Tobin, an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.*

I think spam and aggressive email marketing is akin to currency speculation in some ways, but haven’t read about anything like a stamp or token for emails since Yahoo and AOL announced a plan in 2006 that never took off.*

Could it be done, to help reduce unwanted emails and raise and raise public funds for good causes like climate action? Anyone written about this or working on it?

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax * http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4684942.stm

According to the annual M+R Benchmarks Study, just 187 NGOs spent over €100m on online ads last year (https://mrbenchmarks.com/).

I’ve worked at NGOs for many years, and have always felt uneasy about our dependence on Facebook to recruit members online.

What are the ethical alternatives?

Is there, for example, an AdCouncil or nonprofit ad network for mastodon servers and matrix servers and the like?