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kleinbl00 · 3389 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards.
See Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, inspired by my mother's near single-handed efforts to force New Mexico outdoor advertising to use inflammable materials.“Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard,” Ogilvy wrote. “When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon."