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Today it’s a ban on gambling ads, but tomorrow it’s a ban on mosquitos, cancer, and discrimination.

Listing a bunch of things a lot of people don’t like isn’t a winning argument.

I like the way he included "critical minerals" in this list, sounds like the mining industry also has contributed money to his pocket.

You laugh, but thanks to those critical minerals ads during cartoons, my kids are now begging me for praseodymium and scandium. Prices for rare earths are through the roof but my 10 year old just won't accept that she can't refine advanced alloys in this economy.

If she wants to refine advanced alloys then should look into the environmental regulations first, there's a reason nearly all such processing is done in China, or South East Asia.

If there were ads promoting breeding mosquitos or deliberately inducing cancer, we could look at banning them. But there aren’t so this is a pointless take.

Advertised or not, you can take my breaded mosquitos from my cold, dead hands!

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