I did bump into this page, but it seems what they do is they buy air time intended for ads and place a kind of subverted piece in what is apparently called “culture jamming”. I was hoping more for an organic kind of movement on social media that gets people to talk about the issues more clearly and rethink what is acceptable.
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5 months
There are lots of cultural opposition movements online, like against work exploitation, consumerism, car culture, surveillance, intellectual property, etc. I can find communities on lemmy for all those topics. But regarding a more general opposition to advertisements and marketing, other than the occasional person telling others to use adblockers online (what about ads in every day life?), I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements. There is a lot that can be scrutinized. Ethical concerns such as manipulation, lack of consent and just the simple fact your attention is for sale. The effects range from damage to environment, to our mental health, to harming industries themselves, lowering product quality and maintaining monopolies.
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6 monthsTime and “order” are very unimportant with discoveries.
Im pretty sure historians would disagree with this statement.
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I think time is an important variable, I should have stressed it more in the question. Sure, we would eventually get to the same ideas, but how long would it take? I suspect some development are somewhat expected as multiple people are simultaneously looking at the same underlying problem, while others come as a little more surprising.
6 months
Bonus question: What is an invention that was really important and there is no telling how long we would have to wait for it to appear had it not been discovered by the one credited with it?
It is very simple and few people, but it does work.
I recently bought a scale for weighting food and had a good laugh reading the manual when I saw “not to be used for illicit substance trade”. I imagined some small time drug dealer reacting “damn it”.