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Re:Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content by alwaysdoit on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:23PM (#21774640)
The problem is that leaves you open to e.g. Car companies putting out ads that promote their gas guzzling cars while banning climate change ads that might warn of the consequences of using such vehicles.

If you do what Twitter is now doing[1], "restrict rather than outright ban", you're back to having to serve as an arbiter.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/15/20966897/twitter-politic...

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Re:Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content by JumpCrisscross on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:24PM (#21774649)
> while banning climate change ads that might warn of the consequences of using such vehicles

My comment suggests no such banning. The ads simply couldn't be micro-targeted. They'd also need to be made public, so the public, journalists and other interest groups could review, vet and respond to them.

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