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Quote from Jack > We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Will they also ban politicians? Accounts buy followers to grow and look leg
by justapassenger 7y ago
Quote from Jack
> We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought.
Will they also ban politicians? Accounts buy followers to grow and look legit, including politicians. Just removing ads isn't removing power of money, as people are (and will be) spending a lot of money to get organic reach.
Some of their most popular accounts are politicians accounts. That brings tons of traffic to Twitter and makes money for them.
While I don't disagree with their decision, I think they maybe overstating positive impact it'll have.
- mandeepj 7y ago> Will they also ban politicians? I don't think they will. 'Politicians ban' will be equivalent to banning free expression, and twitter is against that.
- justapassenger 7y agoThey also say that they don't want money to be giving uneven power to politicians, but that's totally happening without ads.
- badrequest 7y agoTrue, but it's also _very much_ being facilitated by advertising.
- buboard 7y agoSo be it. At least from their business side, they are clearing themselves of responsibility. They are a company, they dont have a duty to arbitrate political discourse in general.
- mshafer 7y agoAccounts can artificially inflate their follower count with money, but they can't use money to make _me_ follow them. I think that's the difference with paid advertising, where you can buy the ability to reach anyone.