Twitter to ban political advertising

Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by tomp on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:29PM (#21402981)

> This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle

Let's just keep in mind that Trump spent way less on the election in total than Clinton did.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by mrtksn on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:35PM (#21403023)

Why do we keep that in mind?

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by tomp on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:39PM (#21403073)

Controversy is addictive. By forbidding spending money to get reach, the ones with most reach will be those who are the most controversial.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by mrtksn on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:46PM (#21403142)

Sounds fine to me. You hold a popularity contest for the top job, the most popular person gets elected in a transparent fashion. It's very different than opaquely targeting individuals because you know what is going on and if you disagree you can do your own thing to win support.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by munk-a on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:44PM (#21403134)

Certainly with how media organizations are currently oriented and the assumption that those organizations will continue to be able to advertise or opine on candidates. But there is no definite reason that news network needs to be chasing stories 24/7 as they are now, that's a relatively new trend.

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