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Advertising Hits Arizona County Government Website

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the citizens-for-sale dept.

Combuchan writes "Just when you thought that pages on your local government's website were the last bastion of the advertisement-free WWW, that may soon change. Maricopa County (seen on slashdot before), home to 3.4 million people in the Phoenix metropolitan area, has seen their GIS website "become an every day tool for realtors, developers, mortgage and title companies, appraisers, inspectors, attorneys and many other professionals associated with the real estate industry." As a result, they are now accepting bids for Web advertisements. As the county is one of the best-run in the nation, this could set quite the precedent."

3 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's either ads or taxes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you foolish child

  2. Where the good guy pays by alext · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Bit late now.

    The IETF's myopic mantra of "everything must be free" has inevitably failed and in its place is a system where the best sites have to pay for the privilege of having a big audience.

    A more practical economic model would have ensured that the consumer paid instead of the producer. Now having married these systems in haste we get to repent at leisure.

  3. Re:Right by black+mariah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, Tom's Lawn Care and Mower Repair is a huge fucking corporation, isn't it? Grow a brain before posting, fuckwad.

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