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Twitter to ban all political advertising
Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages "should be earned, not bought". "While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics," company CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted.
Social media rival Facebook recently ruled out a ban on political ads.
News of the ban divided America's political camps for the 2020 election. Brad Parscale, manager of President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, said the ban was "yet another attempt by the left to silence Trump and conservatives". But Bill Russo, spokesman for the campaign to elect Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, said: "When faced with a choice between ad dollars and the integrity of our democracy, it is encouraging that, for once, revenue did not win out."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:31PM (31 children)
Between that and them considering any non-Progressive speech a hate crime, there shouldn't be much wrongthink left and everyone can live in a shiny, happy Twitterverse.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:39PM (2 children)
Twitter also goes after the left so basically, this a huge gambit to support the HRC wing of the Democrat party.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:40PM
The cia democrats: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html [wsws.org]
Also known as the "neocons", ie the warmongering republicrats.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:23PM
Twitter’s Head of Censorship, Vijaya Gadde, is responsible for deciding what is considered an illegal political twitter ad. These are some of the Twitter groups she follows: Flip States Blue, Swing Left, SPLC, ACLU, David Hogg, Women's March (actually anti-woman due to Islamic leaders but whatever), Buzzfeed SF, HeForShe, Flippable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:40PM (7 children)
The Twitterverse will never be happy. Remove all the wrongthink and they will just make up new wrongthink and eat each other alive.
Also, Twitter isn't banning political advertising on the platform. They just aren't getting paid for it. They are kneecapping their own business so that they can't be blamed for future election results.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:25PM (6 children)
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/03/29/get-woke-go-broke-dicks-sporting-goods-loses-millions-anti-gun-stance/ [redstate.com]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @06:27PM (1 child)
Someone should stab Ed Stack to death.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @07:14PM
There. FTFY. Because guns don't kill people, whack jobs with guns do.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:21PM
Well, if Stack isn't sorry then he couldn't have cost Dick's Sporting Goods that much money with his anti-gun stance. Saying "lost out on millions of dollars" is saying that's money you didn't make from selling guns, not that you lost revenue from selling other goods because people don't want to shop there at all anymore.
Usually, though, when a CEO of a publicly traded company makes a decision to make less money on purpose, large shareholders sue the company. If that doesn't happen, if pension funds, hedge funds (who have no morals except profit maximization), and mutual funds don't sue them, then that will tell a very much larger story about what's really going on in the world. I haven't put that much credence in the notion that the Deep State/1%/UniParty/Lizard People are staging a coup to overthrow democracy in the West, but if the Big Money starts to behave in a fundamentally different manner than their usual, then you know something's up.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:14PM (2 children)
An update: 250 billion: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/dicks-sporting-goods-ceo-feels-fine-about-losing-250-million-following-gun-sale-restrictions/Content?oid=16002028 [pghcitypaper.com]
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:15PM
M, not B -- MILLION, not billion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @01:38PM
They operate large brick and mortar stores that could easily be replaced by Amazon or Walmart. Time will tell if alienating a chunk of their customer base was a good idea.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:28PM (19 children)
So when is Trump getting kicked off?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:03PM (16 children)
Trump is a progressive. He was democrat until he ran as a republican... Haven't you noticed the national debt doubling under him the same as Obama?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @07:01PM (15 children)
So, a fascist is a progressive now? Then why are republicans so masturbating to his image?
This reminds me of a time when "conservatives" call Hitler a communist because "socialist" in the name of the party. Like north korea is "democratic", because of the name....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @07:18PM
Fascism was always a progressive movement...
The nazis were socialist and had a centrally run economy. People were doing stuff like buying trucks and immediately junking them for the tires due to the mismanagement, and this type of nonsense was going on *before* WWII. I know you are too brainwashed to read this book but maybe someone else will educate themselves: https://mises.org/library/vampire-economy [mises.org]
Here is a lecture on the book for people who prefer that format: https://youtube.com/watch?v=17DkMDvKqw0 [youtube.com]
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:58PM (11 children)
Words mean what idiots want them to mean (see the guy's reply to you below..."fascism was a progressive movement," what the actual fuck...).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:47PM (10 children)
Yes, you are the one ignorant or in denial of basic history. Sorry, but all you have to do is look it up and be capable of comprehending what you read. Here is just one of many examples (you can see the book cited above for more):
https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-was-Adolf-Hitler-a-progressive [quora.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:55PM (9 children)
Did you even read the reply you linked to me? Good grief, by the "logic" employed in that post, *anyone* who attempts to improve peoples' lot is a "progressive" regardless of what their social, economic, or political position is. That's utterly, utterly vacuous.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:02PM (8 children)
Quote one example and explain. I mean anyone educated in history knows you are wrong, but it will be a good exercise for you. Eg, eitler explicitly quoted the American Progressive movement as an inspiration:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/american-eugenics [allthatsinteresting.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
There are millions of sources about this, you can figure it out yourself from here.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:16PM (7 children)
Do you have a point somewhere? Because all I'm seeing is "people who said they wanted to improve life for others did evil shit, therefore wharrrrgabl progressives as a whole are evil." This doesn't even rise to the level of a reasoned argument.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:19PM (6 children)
The point is that Fascism was a Progressive movement. Like I said originally.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:36PM (5 children)
Name me anything that intends to help people that is not a progressive movement, then? And, what do you propose we do instead of "progressivism," which will include virtually any human effort at all with the size of the net you're casting?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:47PM (4 children)
Cutting the US federal budget by 40%, and eliminating income tax for the lower 95%. Auditing the federal reserve, getting rid of all prohibition of drugs, etc.
This isn't hard to understand. Progressivism is all about government meddling. If you want to help people, do stuff that results in less government meddling.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:57PM (2 children)
Ah, I see your problem...you've got "progressive" conflated with "big government." I happen to think *some* of the things you're suggesting are very "progressive" indeed, in the sense that they would certainly improve peoples' lives overall, but you're not using words correctly here. If you have a problem with big government, *say so in the first place using those words.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @12:01AM (1 child)
No. That is not "my problem". It is the platform of the progressive movement, whose policies were the inspiration for Hitler and the Nazi party.
Anyway, ok. Choose to remain ignorant of history and use words inconsistent with how everyone has used them before you. Your loss, you will get screwed over due to this choice of yours.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 01 2019, @02:46PM
So is your issue reading comprehension, or moral insanity? I mean it could be a little from Column A and a little from Column B, but I'm morbidly curious...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by dry on Friday November 01 2019, @12:56AM
Now that would be progressive..
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:21PM (1 child)
Obama was so progressive he created the right of the president to execute US citizens without trial. I'd like to call that a fascist policy but that would violate the formula that says only Republicans are fascists and that no matter what Democrats do, who they kill, who they spy on, and whose money they take for political favor, Democrats are never anything but peace loving goodness and light. You can tell by how they talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlz3-OzcExI [youtube.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by dry on Friday November 01 2019, @01:00AM
I think his fix for your medical system was a good example of why he was such a disappointment. And executing anyone, even with a trial is pretty regressive,as well as singling out that only American citizens deserve a trial.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @05:03PM
Common sense doesn't work on the crazies that have a martyr complex. Not only do they have the crazy part, but they are emotionally invested in their own idess of persecution.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 31 2019, @09:26PM
I think this policy is Twitter's attempt to square the circle. They would really like to censor Trump, but they know that if he stops using their platform their business would implode. So they are going to try to shadow-ban conservative voices under the auspices of this policy while allowing progressive interests to keep on pushing "public interest" ads. It's the same dodge they already use for 501(c)(3) organizations whereby they can't do politicial advertising or they will lose their non-profit status, but they can do "issue advocacy" ads with no problem. So in practice the 501(c)(3)s tend to synchronize their advertising with the platform of the party nominees during election time.
Washington DC delenda est.