- Don't ban advertising but also don't treat commercial advertising as pure free speech.
For instance, for false claims, make it easier to drag a corporation into court and get legal remedies commensurate with the damage or potential damage caused by their dishonesty.
Right now the bias is towards unfettered, dishonest and psychologically manipulative commercial "free speech" with no guardrails the average person can enforce.
So, saying "we think this is the best detergent ever" is fine. It's clearly an opinion. But false or generally misleading claims, especially those that cover-up the potential dangers of the product, could lead to punitive damages sufficient to be a deterrent.
- Sponsor open source code and open source hardware solutions that DIY folks can put together at $300 or below price point.
Gold star if you sponsor an independent test of this solution to verify its effectiveness.
Bonus points for explaining what matters in terms of testing.
Self-serving (which is OK in this context) points for explaining how your product mitigates the problem by demonstrating the DIY metered results.
- There are lots of ways to export like this https://github.com/SoftwareArtisan/signal-backup-exporter
These were fairly popular for awhile and supported advanced features like multiprocessing. The demand for exercising the full range of capabilities was kind of niche but an "amateur", like myself, could make a few bucks if you knew ALGOL.
I used to have the grey manual for the Burrough's variant - I'll have to poke around to see if it's in the attic somewhere.