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Re:X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt adverti... by cratermoon on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:05PM (#37190130)
Making advertisers police content for them surely won't go well for 𝕏.
Re:X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt adverti... by SenAnder on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:21PM (#37190336)
You may not be up to date with the latest thinking, but it is widely accepted that advertising agencies are the best, most benevolent arbiters of speech. That is why their judgment is never questioned, but presented as immutable fact, like the weather.
Re:X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt adverti... by cratermoon on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:48PM (#37190644)
> advertising agencies are the best, most benevolent arbiters of speech.

Needs an /s

Re:X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt adverti... by x128 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:40PM (#37191166)
You get what you pay for. You're free to start a subscription twitter that hosts all the hate content you want.
Re:X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt adverti... by SenAnder on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:36PM (#37191717)
> You get what you pay for.

Free markets when you agree with them, civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws when you don't.

> Platforms that sustain themselves on advertising are going to do what is popular with the public.

You mean what is popular with advertisers, not public, right?

Re:X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt adverti... by gurleen_s on Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:27PM (#37191027)
Sure it will. It’s always been the case. Do you think reasonable advertisers have always been placing their brand next to content they don’t like? I think it’s more than acceptable that an advertiser demands their content not be next to neo-Nazi content. It’s the free market.