IAB's Rothenberg pummels ad blockers

This event report describes how Randall Rothenberg, the president/CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), decried ad blockers as "self-proclaimed" libertarians denying freedom to everyone else.

IAB's Rothenberg pummels ad blockers

Geoffrey PrecourtWarc

"The true face of ad blocking" insists Randall Rothenberg, president/ceo of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), can be found in "the rich and self-righteous, who want to tell everyone else what they can and cannot read and watch and hear – self-proclaimed libertarians whose liberty involves denying freedom to everyone else.

"The ad-block profiteers are building for-profit companies whose business models are premised on impeding the movement of commercial, political, and public-service communication between and among producers and consumers," he told delegates at the IAB's 2016 Annual Leadership Meeting (ALM) in Palm...

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