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I’m fairly antiregulation and they have me cheering for Google and Facebook to get government regulation. Remember when their motto was “do no evil”... decidin
by SlowRobotAhead 9y ago
I’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_ 9y agoIs there precedent for telling a company who's ads they must show?
- chrisco255 9y agoYeah, it happens in political advertising in particular. You can't deny one or the other party's ads.
- GeneralMayhem 9y agoBut surely you can choose not to show political ads at all, which would be the parallel situation?
- magicalist 9y 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 9y agoInteresting that the internet is broadcast sometimes and not other times then.
- magicalist 9y 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.