Internet Advertising Bureau head comments on adblocking

Quote: In all advanced societies around the world, advertising has been a central contributor to assuring such freedom and diversity of expression and economic action.

Ha ha ha ha ha! I almost wet myself. In what parallel universe has advertising been anything other than a homogenizing censor of unpleasant viewpoints? And sometimes a mechanism of censorship and control - I'm thinking here of the newspaper stories that got spiked because they might offend a big advertiser.

What a pompous, self-deluded fool.