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Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by dinofacedude on Sunday December 29, 2019 @12:55AM (#21904280)
Can't blame them. If I owned a software company I wouldn't touch politics with a mile long pole.
Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by smt88 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:20AM (#21906285)
While I agree and think I generally approve of tech companies banning political ads, these bans are still not an apolitical move.

They're going to disproportionately affect underdog and non-incumbent candidates, as well as anyone who needs the voters purged in places like Georgia.

Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:47AM (#21906853)
I think it will affect the incumbent the most. Trump used the impeachment fiasco to do record fundraising, and now he’s heading into 2020 with a massive war chest.

With major platforms banning political ads, they’re increasingly making that war chest less valuable.

Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by bdcravens on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:17PM (#21907412)
I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities to spend that money on traditional media.
Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by throwGuardian on Sunday December 29, 2019 @03:49PM (#21908361)
It's all a big coincidence, the timing of this, affecting a party that's not popular among tech titans, no breach of ethics here at all. Everyone remembers the groundswell opposition from tech, to the Obama campaign's use of social media and targeted advertising, right? No?

Wait, was the media and tech sprawling with fawning reviews, declaring the Obama campaign a genius use of tech?

Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by smt88 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:03PM (#21907721)
> increasingly making that war chest less valuable

Phone banking, knocking on doors, and (as someone else said) traditional media are all easy ways to spend money.

Trump needed cost-effective social media before, but now he won't be as reliant on it.

Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by mandeepj on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:43PM (#21910873)
> Trump needed cost-effective social media before, but now he won't be as reliant on it.

Which is good. No more of Cambridge Analytica and following -

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-facebooks-embed-in-the-trum...

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Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by smt88 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:35PM (#21909761)
I think that whether you support Trump, want to see him removed now, or want to see a fair trial, this impeachment isn't your dream scenario.
Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by BoorishBears on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:07PM (#21909277)
Is there a world in which being impeached is not a "thing that is a complete failure, especially in a ludicrous or humiliating way"?
Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by mandeepj on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:59PM (#21909564)
Not for everyone
Re:Spotify Becomes Latest Tech Company to Hit Pause on Polit... by BoorishBears on Sunday December 29, 2019 @10:16PM (#21910528)
The definition literally covers every side of the spectrum

From the president who would call it fiasco because he claims it's a partisan attack, to the house democrats who'd call it a fiasco because the senate has members saying they'll be working with the prosecution to throw it out as quickly as possible, and everyone in between.

This feels like a useless attempt to distract with semantics that isn't even correct if you really want to nitpick...