UN Twitter to ban political advertising

jack on Twitter

“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵”

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Surely it'll be picked up by other news agencies later on, we can update the OP if necessary.

Having said that... I'd say it's a step in the right direction, but a little too late. Your move, Zucc.

 

[Philosophy Phil]

Don't worry, its only for Republicans and Centrists. Liberal and Democratic political advocation, especially those in the Socialist and "Woke" areas will be fine.

 

[It's HK-47]

Honestly, given the way that the Republicans--especially Trump--have been out-fundraising the Democrats to such an alarming degree, I would have been more surprised if they hadn't banned paid, political advertising. I don't inherently disagree with the idea of removing paid, political advertisements, but I do find it hilarious that they only change the rules when it's clear that they aren't going to win from that angle.

I'd say that I'd love to see them take it even further and put in the work to remove bot-networks that forcibly upvote and rank up "sponsored" Tweets through their algorithms while they're at it, but I can't finish that sentence with a straight face. If they were the ones raising ten times the amount of money above the Republicans, then I don't for a second believe that they would have instituted this rule.

I agree with the concept, but I don't buy the motive.

 

[Foxxo]

Oh boy. They're still going to push for uninformed twats to toss in ballots, only now no one shall be allowed to inform anyone else on who they're really voting for. How lovely. I'm sure the news channels and any site that doesn't follow suit will enjoy this.

 

[The best and greatest]

>implying he'll get reelected
lmao

Incumbent advantage is real yo. Plus the dems aren't sending their best. Sure they have Bernie but his chance came and went. The dems are putting on a brave face, but the fact that they're sending all the rejects into their primary tells me the top-level people fully expect to lose this one.

 

[Lodoss Warrior]

Don't know what this is supposed to accomplish. Most twitter users use memes or snippy comments to promote their candidate of choice. Are they going to ban memes and "TRUMP 2020!" comments?

 

[frozenrunner]

I am nursing a growing hope for actual, hilarious suicides if Trump is reelected.

 

[Recoil]

Twitter itself isn't political advertising?
Oh wait, that's 'content'.

I'd imagine that if you have a massive platform and nourish a specific viewpoint within said platform...

srsly tho, the greatest political advert in human history is the current year left. Those guise have worked real magic.

 

[HeyYou]

if they allowed political advertising A&H would be bitching about how the poor conservatives are being marginalized by (CTR / Shareblue / Soros / [insert other spooky interest group here])'s nonstop shilling

now that they've banned it, A&H will bitch about the honest, hard-working, benevolent conservative donors who have been deprived of their YHWH-given right to express themselves with loads of money

truly there is no way for trump to win again (even though he totally will). a true catch-22. oy, vey ist euch.

And here you are bitching about A&H bitching about things they're not bitching about.

 

[XYZpdq]

lol political advertising is basically the Black Friday times fifty of media
say hi to gawker for me, twatter

 

[Calooby]

I am nursing a growing hope for actual, hilarious suicides if Trump is reelected.

It'll be natural selection just doing it's job as usual.

But yeah Jack is totally lying out his ass, because we all know it's going to be done to suppress anything right or center leaning.

 

[GloryBoy]

If they actually enforce this for both sides I’m all for it, but Twitter has a liberal bias in most cases. As for Zuck and FB, I doubt he’ll adopt this policy. He’s obsessed with money, and he knows a huge amount of the US Facebook population, if not the majority, are boomer cons that will flip their shit if he does this

 

[It's HK-47]

if they allowed political advertising A&H would be bitching about how the poor conservatives are being marginalized by (CTR / Shareblue / Soros / [insert other spooky interest group here])'s nonstop shilling

now that they've banned it, A&H will bitch about the honest, hard-working, benevolent conservative donors who have been deprived of their YHWH-given right to express themselves with loads of money

truly there is no way for trump to win again (even though he totally will). a true catch-22. oy, vey ist euch.

Well, this explicitly benefits Trump, though. He doesn't even have to pay for advertising because they're all completely incapable of ever shutting up about him. Even if they try and push out a story with a framework that's 100% negative, the message is still getting out there, and one side of the political aisle is just going to agree with what he did and laugh at how angry it's making the 'other side.'

It's not even free advertising because it's costing them money to run these stories. No other politician in the game even comes close to playing the same sport that Trump does when it comes to manipulating the media, let alone play in the same stadium. When it comes to the political Left dealing with Trump, all Jack just did was ensure that anyone trying to go up against Trump will have an even larger disadvantage than they already had.

 

[Vivec]

Reminder: Jack Dorsey only cares about making money, and keeping his two companies unrelated so that he can continue to make money.

Pretty much every low-IQ idpol dork on twitter hates him, but they keep funding his business anyways. From the anime girls (male) with maga hats, to the blue checks, to the kekistanis, to the antifaggots, they all @ jack with madposts while serving Twitter as paypigs.

 

[Homo neanderthalensis]

if facebook adopts this how will they blame drumpf when he gets re-elected?

Nobody complained about Facebook and Twitter when Obama was elected. The Cambridge Analytica scandal started after Trump was elected.

 

[Give Her The D]

ITT A&H insistent the said article was banning only conservative political ads and not political ads in general

I sure love A&H's spastic autism on everything being a ploy to de-establish the Republican Party.

 

[Unog]

ITT A&H insistent the said article was banning only conservative political ads and not political ads in general

I sure love A&H's spastic autism on everything being a ploy to de-establish the Republican Party.

Because Twitter is known for it's upstanding commitment to enforcing it's rules unilaterally.

Besides people are more pointing out that there's ways around it that will be used. Build a better mouse trap and all that.

 

[Give Her The D]

Because Twitter is known for it's upstanding commitment to enforcing it's rules unilaterally.

Besides people are more pointing out that there's ways around it that will be used. Build a better mouse trap and all that.

A&H would just be going off about Soros/Shareblue/Clinton Foundation buying ads on Twitter anyway.

 

[Unog]

A&H would just be going off about Soros/Shareblue/Clinton Foundation buying ads on Twitter anyway.

You can put anything into a hypothetical, it doesn't matter unless it actually happens.