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If you ban advertisements on Facebook, you end up favoring people with pre-existing set of followers. Typically this will be an incumbent, or perhaps celebrity
by marcell 6y ago
If you ban advertisements on Facebook, you end up favoring people with pre-existing set of followers. Typically this will be an incumbent, or perhaps celebrity candidates.
Moreover, FB banning political ads doesn't end the advantage of having more money. It just channels that money somewhere else (TV ads, hiring door-to-door campaigners).
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHow can you say that banning FB ads similtaneous muzzles free speech (in your other comment) and also has no quantitative impact on speech?
- marcell 6y agoIt certainly muzzles speech. It is likely to lessen the advantage of money in politics, but does not eliminate it entirely. I don’t believe eliminating the influence of money from politics is a desirable or achievable goal. If you do think it is desirable and achievable, then a ban on FB ads makes sense, but you should also presumably advocate for a ban on TV ads, newspaper ads, paid campaign events, paid campaign staff, and so on.