There are forms of advertising which are consensual - someone who buys a copy of Vogue presumably does so because they want to see the products being advertised - but the advertising I would ban is that which responds to the demand for attention by flat-out stealing it. If it's not consensual, it should not be legal.

> you must use brutal authoritarianism to disrupt it entirely

I'm not usually a fan of brutal authoritarianism, but you're making it sound pretty good.