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Making advertisers police content for them surely won't go well for 𝕏.
by cratermoon 3y ago
Making advertisers police content for them surely won't go well for 𝕏.
- SenAnder 3y agoYou may not be up to date with the latest thinking, but it is widely accepted that advertising agencies are the best, most benevolent arbiters of speech. That is why their judgment is never questioned, but presented as immutable fact, like the weather.
- cratermoon 3y ago> advertising agencies are the best, most benevolent arbiters of speech. Needs an /s
- x128 3y agoYou get what you pay for. You're free to start a subscription twitter that hosts all the hate content you want. Platforms that sustain themselves on advertising are going to do what is popular with the public. Turns out most people, despite what some may think, are not hateful violent lunatics. There are plenty of services that host that content if you want it. Google is at your fingertips. Just don't expect people to like you or demand it be mainstream.
- SenAnder 3y ago> You get what you pay for. Free markets when you agree with them, civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws when you don't. > Platforms that sustain themselves on advertising are going to do what is popular with the public. You mean what is popular with advertisers, not public, right?
- gurleen_s 3y agoSure it will. It’s always been the case. Do you think reasonable advertisers have always been placing their brand next to content they don’t like? I think it’s more than acceptable that an advertiser demands their content not be next to neo-Nazi content. It’s the free market.