Think carefully about giving anyone free advertising

Advertising in its current form is a blight on human society. Anybody who has been to any city, anywhere, will be familiar with the ubiquity of advertising. It is everywhere you look; on our buildings, in our schools and universities, written into the scripts of TV shows and movies (as well as in-between!), pushed in blog posts, covering subway and bus windows, and even tattooed onto our own damned bodies.

Advertising is based on a disrespect of personal space and disregard for the right to choose what each of us is exposed to, since much…