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Image: Ad-free tube station (cc)

Down in Pimlico tube station the other day they’d taken down all the track-side adverts. All that was left were some big grey squares.

It gave the place a calmness.

I still think (and talk) about the time when Sao Paolo banned advertising and they took down all of the outdoor ads in one of the most populous cities in the world (see Tony de Marco’s Flickr set).

It’s like a modern fable, an allegory for the power people have to “take down” advertising on the web whenever they feel like it…