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Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by noir_lord »

jacobgkau wrote: post #53
Certhas wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have successfully banned Cigarette ads. Not saying there aren't things to sort out, and lines to be drawn, but it's by no means impossible.

We've successfully banned cigarette ads from TV and radio. We haven't banned them from the wall at gas stations. They're also not banned on the internet, legally. Do you want to ban advertising, or ban TV and radio advertising?

In the UK they are sold behind blank displays and the packaging is generic as well.

Sure it’s Unrelated but smoking is now 1 in 8 adults and dropping.

You can ban this type of advertising if you enforce it.

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by paganel »

baby wrote: post #54
paganel wrote: post #20

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Maybe make a case for it if you think you have such good arguments

I get EU (political, just to be sure) propaganda ads on my Facebook feed almost each and every day, no matter if we're outside the election period or not, while from now on political movements will have to abide by these so called rules:

> Among the requirements, the law demands that platforms provide information on what election, referendum or legislative process the ad is linked to

So if communication of said political movement via social media is connected to no election, no referendum and to no specific legislative process then it basically becomes forbidden. Supposing my country (Romania in this case) decides to send the Army next door into the Republic of Moldova that will involve no "legislative process", it will be an executive order, we already have a law that handles sending the Army outside our borders if our security demands it, so in effect the anti-war political movements here in Romania will not be able to speak against this on social media. Absolute madness, but that's the bed the globalists are laying for themselves.

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by mytailorisrich »

tdb7893 wrote: post #2

Ignoring political implications here and just on a personal level I wish political ads were banned. Quite possibly my least favorite type of ad to see and I've never felt meaningfully informed by them (generally quite the opposite).

Banning political ads would completely negate what a democratic free society is.

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by ajrouvoet »

Dutch newspaper Trouw also reported that their ad was rejected multiple times by Meta. After inquiry into this they found it was because it was about sustainability and hence considered “a political ad”.

(Paywalled) Source: https://www.trouw.nl/cultuur-media/advertenties-over-armoede...

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

#105

Post by Reason077 »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #39
tdb7893 wrote: post #2

Ignoring political implications here and just on a personal level I wish political ads were banned. Quite possibly my least favorite type of ad to see and I've never felt meaningfully informed by them (generally quite the opposite).

The worst form of physical ads in Germany. A slogan or a face and the party name printed on paper and hung up on the streets everywhere. So wasteful.

Sounds like a pretty standard election sign/billboard design in any country.

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by stronglikedan »

parasti wrote: post #18

As a EU citizen, I don't care? People are not swayed by political ads. They're swayed by influencers who push political agendas covertly.

As a world citizen, you're projecting. Most people are indeed swayed by political ads, as the numbers clearly bear out.

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by lovich »

beezlebroxxxxxx wrote: post #77
jopsen wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the political ads are like in the US. Not at all. Also the scale is no where near. TV2 in Denmark just ran an article saying that the 24 politicians and parties buying the most ads bought a total of 250k ads ahead of this policy coming into effect. Note that same month last year the spend was ~1/3. I know Denmark is small, ~5-6M, but that's doesn't seem like a lot of money.

The amount of money in US politics and elections in particular is staggering when you think about it. In 15 weeks Kamala Harris' campaign spent $1.5 billion. That's just insane. Especially when you find out that a lot of that spend goes through "media consultancies" and PR firms...run by former DNC staffers. And the same is true for the RNC. The two parties are basically a giant revolving door and network of jobs wit…

Your post sounds conspiratorial but there are basic economic reasons why those revolving doors seem to exist.

Every campaign is going to need largely the same set of skill sets in their campaign staff. Spinning up these groups and also going through the startup time of any new team learning to work together costs a lot of time and money.

So several of these standard skill sets, like data science, marketing, etc have been spun out into companies or consulting firms that are treated like a pool of available resources by campaigns based on their party.

It’s not treated as a slush fund and there’s usually a handful of competitors in your parties pool but you do end up working with a lot of the same faces at different clients/campaigns if you work at one of the servicing companies.

I worked at one of them once and I recall realizing that fact when I asked why a coworkers email had numeral in his name when he had a relatively uncommon first and last name

Re: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU

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Post by Reason077 »

noir_lord wrote: post #101
jacobgkau wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've successfully banned cigarette ads from TV and radio. We haven't banned them from the wall at gas stations. They're also not banned on the internet, legally. Do you want to ban advertising, or ban TV and radio advertising?

In the UK they are sold behind blank displays and the packaging is generic as well. Sure it’s Unrelated but smoking is now 1 in 8 adults and dropping. You can ban this type of advertising if you enforce it.

Every time I’m back in the UK I’m a bit shocked at how many people seem to smoke and vape compared to other countries. Including many of my friends. There’s still a long way to go!
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