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A comment on Twitter to ban political advertising. Parent comment

Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:38PM (#21405229)
I am not buying this, in the narrow definition, politics is relevant to politicians and elections. Shell is just a private company, so is fair game.

Secondly, suppose you could not advertise about shell so what? You can advertise for Greenpeace and related causes.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by fzeroracer on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:52PM (#21405587)
Greenpeace would absolutely be considered political and likely banned, considering the causes they advocate for.

Which, again, means companies like Shell could advertise all they want, but anything that calls them out would be considered political.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by ClumsyPilot on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:45AM (#21407055)
This is an absurd claim. Any charity advocates something, from planting trees to helping the poor.

One would have to have a purposefully obtuse definition of political speech to outlaw ads by charities but allow Shell.

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