Re:Google to restrict political adverts worldwide
by dogma1138 on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:50AM
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I don't think it's correct, the first one is facilitates a defined criminal activity the 2 others are not necessarily criminal (they might be in certain jurisdictions).
There is a huge difference between an "ad" that is designed to compromise a bank account through phishing and a ad that is designed to sway political opinion even if it's untruthful.
In fact out of those 3 the former isn't even an advertisement necessarily despite the fact that it might be presented to the user through "google ads".
Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that falsely claims that a certain candidate has dropped out of the race, or that the election date has been changed?
Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that falsely attributes words or actions to a certain candidate? (e.g. imagine an ad that falsely claims "Candidate X has changed her position on issue A.")
If you have different answers for some of these questions, then your view is more complicated than "I don't want Google to be the judge of the validity of claims."