Twitter to ban political advertising

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

jld wrote: post #37

duxup wrote: post #7

Is this when we now start to wonder what will count as a political ad? Social movements that have a political connection / associated with a particular party or candidate?

Major League Soccer is going through this problem now. They prohibit political displays in stadium but are now in the business of deciding whether signs that say things like "anti-racist" or "anti-fascist" or "end gun violence" are political or not, and all of the worms that come out of that can. https://deadspin.com/by-banning-protest-signs-mls-is-trying-...

Post by roywiggins » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #38

duxup wrote: post #7

Is this when we now start to wonder what will count as a political ad? Social movements that have a political connection / associated with a particular party or candidate?

My first thought would be that any ad that isn't advertising a product or service for sale should be classed as a political ad.

Post by catalogia » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #50

psychometry wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only there was a way to communicate more than a couple sentences at the time over the internet. Someone should make that!

You can't really criticise twitter for this - last year they were all ready to launch a way to embed text posts in a tweet like images can currently be embedded in a tweet, until the userbase revolted and they had to cancel the plan.

Post by tyre » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #45

Miner49er wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A post from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21380985 A user who works in digital advertising said they do the following: > You don't take money from clients who are representing/selling anything other than goods or services. You evaluate creative & landing pages for each and every campaign. It's extremely simple. Seems like a mostly good solution. I guess you could still sell political services an…

So does that mean some group like the American Cancer Society can't advertise?

Post by partiallypro » Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 8:26 PM UTC

proverbialbunny wrote: post #40

Campaign finance is illegal in most of the first world. If political ads were banned in the US, politicians wouldn't need money to get reelected (Ads get the majority of votes.). When a politician needs money to get reelected they have to take money from lobbyists. Banning political ads is crucial linchpin to getting money out of politics.