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The site https://www.sofmag.com/ https://www.sofmag.com/ currently shows advertising for gun accessories next to mostly political news and opinion pieces. Does

The site https://www.sofmag.com/ https://www.sofmag.com/ currently shows advertising for gun accessories next to mostly political news and opinion pieces. Does the legality of this advertising depend on whether a person or an algorithm selected the advertising? Questions like these are probably why the bill Josh Hawley wrote is clearly targeted at Facebook and Google, what with the $1.5bil revenue number: https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=SenHawley&crop=14313QQQ5897779QQQ5550481QQQ7266215&report_id=&redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.hawley.senate.gov%2fsites%2fdefault%2ffiles%2f2020-07%2f2020-07-28%2520-%2520Bad%2520Ads%2520Bill%2520Text_0.pdf&redir_log=461643216717635 https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=... (huh, is that a click tracker? URL from https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-introduces-bill-remove-section-230-immunity-behavioral-advertisers https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-introduces-bill...)

dahart 6y ago
> [site] currently shows advertising for gun accessories next to mostly political news and opinion pieces. I guess this is still somewhat straw man. Ads near politics and opinion on a politically oriented site also isn't what was being called out exactly. I guess that it could be summarized as advertising the ammunition to carry out a violent insurrection next to the call to create a violent insurrection (illegally), on a site that is primarily social, mass market, and supposedly politically neutral, that was the problem being called out. Trying to draw broader lines than that makes any argument specious at best. > Does the legality of this advertising depend on whether a person or an algorithm selected the advertising? Currently, no. Currently the advertising is legal regardless. (And note, again, the legality of the ads wasn't the issue being discussed.)

dahart 6y ago

> [site] currently shows advertising for gun accessories next to mostly political news and opinion pieces. I guess this is still somewhat straw man. Ads near politics and opinion on a politically oriented site also isn't what was being called out exactly. I guess that it could be summarized as advertising the ammunition to carry out a violent insurrection next to the call to create a violent insurrection (illegally), on a site that is primarily social, mass market, and supposedly politically neutral, that was the problem being called out. Trying to draw broader lines than that makes any argument specious at best. > Does the legality of this advertising depend on whether a person or an algorithm selected the advertising? Currently, no. Currently the advertising is legal regardless. (And note, again, the legality of the ads wasn't the issue being discussed.)