Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform

Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by irjustin on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:30PM (#23547060)

Unmoderated/fully-self-moderated free speech for political content trends towards extreme ends of either stance.

I've seen it repeatedly in reddit, 4chan and others. Reddit attempts to walk the balance of site-moderation vs user-moderated and it's extremely difficult on that knife edge.

The hope with ZH that it would span the political divide and allow proper discourse and exchange of ideas from both/any side of thinking.

But without moderation, it trends towards mud-slinging, vitriol where arguments become so divided that it's no longer discourse.

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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by downerending on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:35PM (#23547093)

Given the choice between Reddit moderation and ZH, I'll take the latter. Really, though, I rarely read the comments on either platform anymore.

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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by nfoz on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:25AM (#23548118)

> But without moderation, it trends towards mud-slinging, vitriol where arguments become so divided that it's no longer discourse.

I think of it as performance art of insane babble, satire, potty-humour. Should "proper discourse and exchange of ideas" be the only thing allowed to exist?

(I have no problem with advertisers pulling away from it, either.)

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Re:Google bans ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad plat... by wyclif on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:10AM (#23548665)

No site, not even ZH, has a worse comments section than YouTube. Seems to me that it's going to be really hard for Google to escape charges of hypocrisy by banning sites not because of news content but because of unorthodox and offensive comment threads.

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