Everyone is focused on the money but I'm mostly fascinated by the requirement to not mention there are other ways to pay. There is also adsense forbidding you

Everyone is focused on the money but I'm mostly fascinated by the requirement to not mention there are other ways to pay. There is also adsense forbidding you from talking about adsense earnings on pages with ads. Youtube demanding advertisement friendly speech. Platforms taking a percentage of second hand goods bought and sold by users don't want you to use the chat to take the deal outside their walled garden. It all seems so reasonable! Of course there are also tons of topics you should never mention on HN, X or Reddit but their users guide offers very limited guidance. It is, shall we say, not fashionable to be specific. Maybe they are all wrong? Perhaps there is room for a more rigorous industry that specifically instructs us how to behave. We are "secretly" already at the internet cult level of things. It gets more funny if you hold that thought and picture how the controllers are constantly hammering us with spam. People are so nice they cant imagine outlawing advertisement for the annoying troll it is. Take this bit from the adsense TOS: > A "Sensitive Event" is an unforeseen event or development that creates significant risk to Google's ability to provide high quality, relevant information and ground truth, and reduce insensitive or exploitative content in prominent and monetized features. During a sensitive event, we may take a variety of actions to address these risks. You see? Telling you straight up how to behave is much easier than to try to make sense from this. I'm to old of course but for the younglings there is still hope. https://studentsfororwell.org https://studentsfororwell.org