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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 31 2019, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-echo-chamber dept.

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."


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:47PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:47PM (#914366)

    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...).

    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]

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:55PM (9 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 31 2019, @10:55PM (#914370) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:02PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:02PM (#914374)

      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.

      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:

      "There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the American Union." – Adolf Hitler

      https://allthatsinteresting.com/american-eugenics [allthatsinteresting.com]

      Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population,[2][3] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States during the Progressive Era, from the late 19th century until US involvement in World War II.[4]

      Eugenics was practiced in the United States many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany,[5] which were largely inspired by the previous American work.[6][7][8] Stefan Kühl has documented the consensus between Nazi race policies and those of eugenicists in other countries, including the United States, and points out that eugenicists understood Nazi policies and measures as the realization of their goals and demands.[9]

      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)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:16PM (#914375) Journal

        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.

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        • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:19PM (6 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:19PM (#914376)

          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)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:36PM (#914383) Journal

            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?

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:47PM (4 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:47PM (#914385)

              Name me anything that intends to help people that is not a progressive movement, then?

              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)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday October 31 2019, @11:57PM (#914387) Journal

                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.*

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                • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @12:01AM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @12:01AM (#914389)

                  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

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 01 2019, @02:46PM (#914598) Journal

                    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...

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              • (Score: 2) by dry on Friday November 01 2019, @12:56AM

                by dry (223) on Friday November 01 2019, @12:56AM (#914405) Journal

                Now that would be progressive..