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- Adbusters - Culture Jammer's Adbuster site features campaigns, spoof ads, uncommercials, magazine
www.adbusters.org
- 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.
www.newdream.org/award/index.html
- Blacklist of Internet Advertisers - Intended to curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail.
www.non.com/news.answers/advertisers-blacklist.html
- Campaign chops at billboards - Opponents of billboard advertising are campaigning to limit commercial signs along Michigan highways. From the Detroit Free Press.
www.freep.com/news/mich/qboards15.htm
- Chicago bans alcohol billboards - Chicago follows Baltimore in banning alcohol and tobacco billboard advertising.
www.cspinet.org/booze/chicago.htm
- 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.
www.causs.org
- Internet Junkbusters - The Internet Junkbuster (TM) is free software that blocks banner ads, cookies, referring URLs and other unwanted browser junk.
www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html
- Interrupt media-simulated social interaction - Draw hypno-spirals on colored dot stickers and put them on eyes in advertisements.
www.syntac.net/hoax/Hypno/index.php
- Junkbusters - Helps consumers reduce unwanted junk mail, junk email, telemarketing calls, and protect their privacy from direct marketing companies.
www.junkbusters.com
- Media Foundation - Publishers of Adbuster magazine and web site; operate Power Shift advocacy advertising agency; organizers of campaigns such as "Buy Nothing Day"
www.adbusters.org/information/foundation/index.html
- 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.
www.freedomforum.org/speech/news/971218.asp
- Subvertise - Archive of subverts, political art, spoof banner ads and parody web sites.
www.subvertise.org
- 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."
www.beacham.com/telephone_junk_605.html
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