So much for "Free speech is now legal on Twitter".
The only thing worse than cancel culture pushed by woke terminally-online uni students with too much time on their hands is cancellation pushed by advertisers. I cannot fathom why anyone cares about "ads showing up next to [X]". Advertising is not supposed to be linked to content. This was fundamental to anyone ever trusting newspapers, for example, and I don't see why it would be any different with internet advertising. Nobody with a functioning brain thinks "oh this ad appeared on Twitter while I was on this guy's Twitter profile, obviously the creator of the advertised product endorses this guy's views". The idea of someone making that connection is the only reason I can think of for why someone would care about this, and it is so absurd that it cannot actually be the reason.
Nobody watches a YouTube video and goes "oh wow, this ad for toothpaste was before a video about World of Warcraft, I guess Colgate endorses the view that World of Warcraft's last two expansions aren't very good". You'd have to have a genuine cognitive disability to think that. Yet people constantly act as if it's a big deal. I'm starting to think it's just something people have learnt to use as a weapon. It's certainly being used as a weapon here. It's quite different from a brand actually endorsing someone (and implicitly their views and actions), like that whole Budweiser/Mulvaney thing.
Damn, this post reads like you are saying "I'm mad that the police are stopping me and my pals from lynching people I don't like for a fun Friday night instead of assisting us in doing it."
Yeah man talking is the same as murdering people and hanging them from trees. How can you be this stupid and still figure out how to register an account?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 24.7 ms ] threadThe only thing worse than cancel culture pushed by woke terminally-online uni students with too much time on their hands is cancellation pushed by advertisers. I cannot fathom why anyone cares about "ads showing up next to [X]". Advertising is not supposed to be linked to content. This was fundamental to anyone ever trusting newspapers, for example, and I don't see why it would be any different with internet advertising. Nobody with a functioning brain thinks "oh this ad appeared on Twitter while I was on this guy's Twitter profile, obviously the creator of the advertised product endorses this guy's views". The idea of someone making that connection is the only reason I can think of for why someone would care about this, and it is so absurd that it cannot actually be the reason.
Nobody watches a YouTube video and goes "oh wow, this ad for toothpaste was before a video about World of Warcraft, I guess Colgate endorses the view that World of Warcraft's last two expansions aren't very good". You'd have to have a genuine cognitive disability to think that. Yet people constantly act as if it's a big deal. I'm starting to think it's just something people have learnt to use as a weapon. It's certainly being used as a weapon here. It's quite different from a brand actually endorsing someone (and implicitly their views and actions), like that whole Budweiser/Mulvaney thing.
So great that this is what HN is now... sigh
I mean, if you believed that in the first place you were an idiot anyway.