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Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that claims you have a problem with your bank account and links you to a fake bank login page that steals
by baddox 7y ago
Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that claims you have a problem with your bank account and links you to a fake bank login page that steals your credentials?
Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that falsely claims that a certain candidate has dropped out of the race, or that the election date has been changed?
Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that falsely attributes words or actions to a certain candidate? (e.g. imagine an ad that falsely claims "Candidate X has changed her position on issue A.")
If you have different answers for some of these questions, then your view is more complicated than "I don't want Google to be the judge of the validity of claims."
- dogma1138 7y agoI don't think it's correct, the first one is facilitates a defined criminal activity the 2 others are not necessarily criminal (they might be in certain jurisdictions). There is a huge difference between an "ad" that is designed to compromise a bank account through phishing and a ad that is designed to sway political opinion even if it's untruthful. In fact out of those 3 the former isn't even an advertisement necessarily despite the fact that it might be presented to the user through "google ads".
- baddox 7y agoWhether an ad is illegal is something that Google would need to determine.