Twitter to ban political advertising

Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by wavefunction on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:43PM (#21402458)

Those are a civil rights group and a health care provider. If your politics are opposed to civil rights or health care then you may consider them "political" but they aren't. Not by any reasonable definition.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by bhupy on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:08PM (#21403980)

I'm pro-choice, and support/donate to Planned Parenthood, but you have to be willfully obtuse to not accept that abortion is a political issue — 40% of the country thinks that it should be illegal.

I also donate to ACLU, but you have to be willfully obtuse to not accept that it predominately backs left-leaning policy viewpoints, and vocally so — again, fundamentally political in nature.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by drak0n1c on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:03PM (#21404381)

If an organization lobbies to receive taxpayer funding, or lobbies to change laws and legal rulings, they are political. Whatever else they happen to offer doesn't cover that up.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by vonmoltke on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:00PM (#21402666)

Both organizations have PACs. Their PACs should be covered by any ban on political advertising.

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