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Re:Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter by coldtea on Monday April 04, 2022 @12:34PM (#30908629)
>Twitter has a terms of service, and advertisers don't want their adverts next to hate speech

Why? Does an ad get contaminated by association?

Or it's a minority who gets to call what's "hate speech" and what's not, and pushes advertisers to not want to risk this (who wouldn't give a fuck otherwise)?

Re:Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter by gumby on Monday April 04, 2022 @12:55PM (#30908949)
> Does an ad get contaminated by association?

People buying ads certainly think so. Or more specifically they think their brand or product denoted in the ad will be associated with the context in which it appears.

And they are the customers.