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The article "What is AdBan?"on the website describes "AdBan" as a resistance activity against indoctrination and exploitation. This is not an Ad. AdBan is anti-advertising and is the resistance to indoctrination and media domination. The present urban term "culture jamming" is applicable to describe the AdBan process but this is a "new speak" version.
There appears to be an inconsistency when we speak of free speech, the web is full of advertising, yet AdBan memes for the abolition of advertising, are often labeled "junk" and subject to negative PR, as a result AdBan is not "notable".
Historically AdBan is a precursor of activities like AdBusters that is "the cloned, co-opted version and full of subliminal semiotics." AdBan is against the consumerist mainstream and by default is not covered by it. It is the true media "underground" but that does not mean it is not important, or that it should be "marginalized, quarantined, homogenized and then cloned"
AdBan is subjective in the sense that it is truly from the grass roots representing the interests of the "marginalized" versus the "notable", like the early "Free Speech Messages" (FSM) and multi-media pacifist anti-consumerism "Mail Art" campaigns that it originally started as in 1972, in association with "The (San Francisco) Bay Area Committee for Open Access to Media." part of The Free Speech Movement
There is another unwanted application of "notability" policies, a subtle part of the technology of PR (propaganda) and "mind control" that AdBan addresses i.e.:Here is a quote from a submission on the subject of "notability" that is an action in the spirit of AdBan:
"The concept of notability is meaningless; in practice, it means our local view of what we should have an article on We decide what we want, and then call it "notable, " and try to fit it into the rules. In particular, the concept of the General notability guideline at the English , that two reliable sources giving substantial coverage is the necessary requirement, fails for the types of subjects where the specified sources do not usually exist, which includes a good deal of computer topics, and most of non-Western traditional culture. An encyclopedia is not designed in the abstract; it exists to serve the users. What users might want information on, is what we should provide, if there are sources that are sufficiently reliable. Sufficiently reliable, in the context is much less than reliable in the academic world. Popularity indicates there should be a article; importance indicates there should be a article ; leadership in a segment of the world indicates there should be a article. There is no such thing as too many articles, or too wide coverage."

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