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> Other objections are that the advertisers would be the ones paying Wikipedia, and thus have the ultimate control; they can threaten to reduce advertising reve
by anamax 15y ago
> Other objections are that the advertisers would be the ones paying Wikipedia, and thus have the ultimate control; they can threaten to reduce advertising revenue in order to get objectionable material removed, they would incentivize people to put more advertising-friendly content that would draw people to lucrative pages and entice them to click on ads.
The same is true of contributors as is the response - get different contributors/advertisers.
> They are beholden to their advertisers, not their users.
They lose advertisers as soon as they lose users, so users control their advertising revenue.