Updating our advertising policies on state media

Re:Updating our advertising policies on state media by SilasX on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:39PM (#20741055)

That ... feels like a major loophole, still. It requires Twitter to be able to gauge which state funded media are "really" independent.

I can't really make a convincing case right now, I'll admit, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it feels like a special exemption for (at least) one state-funded entity, for hand-wavy reasons. That seems like in practice it will translate into a policy of banning any PRC equivalent of the BBC, should it ever exist. (Is there currently something close?)

Edit: mjw1007 gives a sense in which the BBC may be more like Chinese state media in this context [1], while derefr gives a more concrete test for deciding which bucket to put the BBC in [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740903

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740759

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Re:Updating our advertising policies on state media by TulliusCicero on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:32PM (#20742010)

It says in the article that they're relying on other organizations like Reporters without Borders to determine editorial independence.

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Re:Updating our advertising policies on state media by SilasX on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:15PM (#20742307)

Ah okay. I would have expected a caveat like that to appear in the same paragraph. Thanks for pointing that out.

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