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When I advertise to consumers, it is not important to me that they believe vaccination against COVID-19 is good or not. I really struggle to think of any compa
by jeofken 5y ago
When I advertise to consumers, it is not important to me that they believe vaccination against COVID-19 is good or not.
I really struggle to think of any company for which it is important that their customers are not sceptical of vaccinations? Maybe airlines and hotels.
Since I can’t see how any company would want to reject customers for making certain decisions about their health or not, it appears to me that it rather is forces within Google, Facebook, and Twitter that do not want any voice critical of their line to be shown. For this reason they (shadow)ban people expressing forbidden or politically incorrect worldviews.
- reaperducer 5y agoI really struggle to think of any company for which it is important that their customers are not sceptical of vaccinations? So you've never heard of the entire healthcare industry? Aside from healthcare, every company of a reasonable size wants people to get vaccinated so that the supply chain can be repaired and they can go back to selling things the way they used to.
- jtbayly 5y agoThis is a really funny take on the supply chain problems. I guess it's always fun to blame the deplorables, but you might want to read about what the actual problems with the supply chain are, including on the front page of HN.
- clairity 5y agohave you never heard of conflict of interest and availability bias? also, reasonable people understand that vaccines aren't the limiting factor to supply chains or business, it's politics.
- unethical_ban 5y agoMany consumers may see you advertising (providing monetary support to) conspiracy theorists, and boycott you for it. Advertisers have to be concerned about being associated with "personae non gratae".
- calsy 5y agoIf that’s a concern then why are they targeting their ads on that content? You can easy toggle off those options in an ad manager. There are companies who wish to target that audience also, there is no need to outright ban content because of advertisers.
- heavyset_go 5y agoBrand owners don't want their brands next to conspiracy theories in the same way they don't want their brands next to pornography.
- prepend 5y agoMost of YouTube is screeching, inane people. I’m not sure why brands would care whether their ads play over antivax conspiracies vs guys eating hair cake and throwing up on each other. I’m not sure how conspiracy theories are more harmful than just tons of other things.
- heavyset_go 5y agoTons of inane content ends up getting demonitized on YouTube because it isn't advertiser friendly.
- prepend 5y agoAnd tons doesn’t. I think the issue I have is I don’t understand what gets to make money and what doesn’t. Since there’s no transparency, it seems arbitrary to me.
- calsy 5y agoSince when do all brand owners share the same values? Why should advertisers be setting content standards regarding what you can and can’t watch.