This is an absurd comment. If my grandma shows me the menu out the front of her favourite restaurant, she should be arrested for peddling advertising? She is doing unpaid advertising for the restaurant.<p>Advertising is an emotive subject for the HN crowd. Many of the start up can&#x27;t really survive without resorting to advertising. Most of the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc are some form of advertising. Should these be banned as well?