Discussion

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Ads about climate change are political, Twitter says. But what about ads by oil companies, car companies, and steakhouses? They're political too, in a sense—but not the sense that will get them banned. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @heerjeet Jeet Heer on x

  2. Also, as @WillOremus notes, Twitter's new policy will limit the ad buying power not just of politicians but political movements, including unions and environmentalists. But it won't hut their opponents. https://onezero.medium.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Twitter's Ban on Political Ads Will Hurt Activists, Labor Groups, and Organizers by @WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com/... // Seemingly simple and popular choices rarely represent a workable solution. Here are some of the issues.

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  There are no easy answers when it comes to the questions of how social media companies should balance impact of free speech. Twitter's ban of political ads which was lauded as easy answer has goal posts moved since argument now doing this hurts activists https://onezero.medium.co…

• @rtushnet Rebecca Tushnet on x

  Roger Ford's recent article on targeting is very important here: https://papers.ssrn.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @edifiedlistener Sherri Spelic on x

  “In a sense, every ad for a brand or product is an advertisement for capitalism and consumerism, and Twitter is cool with that. But try to advertise for socialism, civil rights, or public goods and see how quickly you run afoul of the...” —  @WillOremus https://onezero.medium.com…

• @sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x

  Very good read from @WillOremus. Twitter got itself a bunch of feel-good tweets & praises, but the road ahead on its political ad ban is anything but straightforward. Also reflects how fb's thinking is probably more evolved in this area. No easy solutions! https://onezero.medium.…

• @edifiedlistener Sherri Spelic on x

  “prioritizing commercial speech over political speech is itself a political stance, and not necessarily one that we should want our online communication platforms to take.” Tech will neither protect, nor save us, nor look out for our best interests. https://twitter.com/...

• @jacob_montg Jacob Montgomery on x

  Ads from McDonald's will be ok. Ads for a living wage ... banned. Ads for gun magazines, ok. Ads for gun control... banned. Ads for banks, ok. Ads for bank regulation ... banned. Ads for insurance companies, ok. Ads for MFA... banned. https://twitter.com/...

• @annalecta Anna Massoglia on x

  Twitter doesn't seem like the social media site that can pull off only selling ads for the status quo. Curious how a political ad ban on dissenting groups buying ads advocating against the same issues in corporate ads plays out for govt ads, especially before incumbent elections.…

• @daniellecitron Danielle Citron on x

  Thoughtful piece by @WillOremus on the downsides of a complete ban on political ads. We need strong omnibus privacy law and consumer protection laws limiting manipulative micro targeting. @rcalo was prescient with his work on digital market manipulation https://onezero.medium.com…

• @emilybell Emily Bell on x

  For years platforms have grown through resisting definitions sharper than ‘content’ around the material they distribute , the reckoning around political advertising signals that this is changing...but it isn't going to be easy https://twitter.com/...

• @qjurecic @qjurecic on x

  This is quite literally the issue that WMATA has been litigating over for the past few years https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  The problem with banning political advertising is that almost everything is political. I wrote about how Twitter's widely applauded new policy could backfire: https://onezero.medium.com/...

• @herrmanndigital David Herrmann on x

  It's almost like Zucks thought about this, and realized it's impossible to ban political advertising since we're in 2019 where everything is political. The controversy isn't worth the 0.5% loss in revenue, cause the headache of what is or isn't political will cost more. https://t…