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Google keeps blanket banning industries because bad actors exist. There are legitimate ICOs and legitimate bail bond companies, as the author said, and google
by whataretensors 8y ago
Google keeps blanket banning industries because bad actors exist. There are legitimate ICOs and legitimate bail bond companies, as the author said, and google decides to not differentiate between them. They are an AI company they should be able to detect outright scams. Or god forbid they need to hire someone.
Then Google and Facebook use this and anything else to ask for regulation. Because regulation for entrenched players is just collusion to prevent disruption which will bump stock price.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoI’m fairly antiregulation and they have me cheering for Google and Facebook to get government regulation. Remember when their motto was “do no evil”... deciding they should defacto censor the Internet is evil. Sure no one is going to go to war for ICO and bail bonds ads, but if anyone can’t see the precendent for why this is bad - well - I’m sure some people will jump to tell me why Google is good for “looking out for us” or some such nonsense.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoIs there precedent for telling a company who's ads they must show?
- chrisco255 8y agoYeah, it happens in political advertising in particular. You can't deny one or the other party's ads.
- GeneralMayhem 8y agoBut surely you can choose not to show political ads at all, which would be the parallel situation?
- magicalist 8y agoOnly in broadcast because the FCC licenses the spectrum to them and the supreme court has found that part of the first amendment is that the government has an interest in fostering political discourse. Applying the equal opportunity rules to advertising networks in general would be the legal battle of a lifetime. Applying them for commercial ads is never going to happen.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoInteresting that the internet is broadcast sometimes and not other times then.
- magicalist 8y agoBroadcast as in companies that are FCC licensees to use spectrum, so they're able to have more restrictions placed on them than the first amendment would usually allow.
- Guvante 8y agoIs disallowing ads but allowing search really that bad for businesses?
- dragonwriter 8y agoIt's bad for ones that spend a lot on advertising placement to capture business and make up for with high prices.
- ihsw2 8y agoThe precedent has been set and we are one step closer to blacklisting it from search too. They have thusfar made no pledge that their search results are a neutral public space free from politicking, in fact they have done the opposite on numerous occasions.