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Re:Google to restrict political adverts worldwide by elicash on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:01AM (#21594696)
To be clear, you're in FAVOR of their policy that doesn't allow a rouge actor to, say, run ads targeted to a specific community that tell them Election Day is Wednesday, rather than Tuesday, right?

You're just opposed to the extra measure of removing ads that are based on their fact-checks of political issues? I favor removing on the basis of both, but I do think these are VERY different categories.

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Re:Google to restrict political adverts worldwide by squiggleblaz on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:36AM (#21595131)
If they were an "[azure] actor who ran ads targeted to a specific community", should we suddenly be neutral? What difference does the color of the actor make?
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Re:Google to restrict political adverts worldwide by ShteiLoups on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:53AM (#21595369)
I believe the poster above you meant "rogue", as in malicious but not strictly associated with a specific party.

In any case, it is almost impossible for someone to be truly neutral, especially in US politics. Having a company decide that they are the arbiter of this is dangerous. Especially google, which tends to come off as leaning towards one side of the debate.

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Re:Google to restrict political adverts worldwide by elicash on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:44AM (#21628491)
I had no idea what you comment meant, then I realized I misspelled "rogue." I can't tell if you were joking or actually thought I was referring to cosmetics, but either way, oops my bad.
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