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Topia!: Society: Issues: Business: Advertising: Activism (14)
Junkbusters - Helps consumers reduce unwanted junk mail, junk email, telemarketing calls, and protect their privacy from direct marketing companies. Media Foundation - Publishers of Adbuster magazine and web site; operate Power Shift advocacy advertising agency; organizers of campaigns such as "Buy Nothing Day" Subvertise - Archive of subverts, political art, spoof banner ads and parody web sites. Telemarketing - "Angry at the telemarketers who invade your privacy? Then, get even. Now there is an effective way to fight back against unwanted telephone sales solicitations." Advertising Limbo: How Low Can They Go? - The Center for a New American Dream has created a HyperCommercialism Hall of Shame. Votes can be cast for advertisements which deserve induction. New York City adopts nations strictest cigarette billboard ban - New York City plans to snuff out tobacco advertisements throughout the city with a measure described as the nations toughest restrictions yet on outdoor cigarette advertising. Chicago bans alcohol billboards - Chicago follows Baltimore in banning alcohol and tobacco billboard advertising. Campaign chops at billboards - Opponents of billboard advertising are campaigning to limit commercial signs along Michigan highways. From the Detroit Free Press. Interrupt media-simulated social interaction - Draw hypno-spirals on colored dot stickers and put them on eyes in advertisements. Internet Junkbusters - The Internet Junkbuster (TM) is free software that blocks banner ads, cookies, referring URLs and other unwanted browser junk. Blacklist of Internet Advertisers - Intended to curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail. Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam (CAUSS) - Informal group working to remove illegal commercial street signs. Includes discussion forum, FAQ, news, and contact information for Code Enforcement associations. Didn't I Already Pay for this Movie? - Calls for a boycott of companies that advertise before films.
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