On 24/10/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
- If folks are concerned about the content of ads it is easy enough to
block certain advertisers.
If we block some advertisers, we are implicitly approving others. While that's not the same as endorsing them, it's pretty close, and I, for one, am not keen to tred that line.
Mmm. Which side do we sell advertising to on [[Abortion]]? If you don't blacklist you'll get screams; if you do you'll get screams, whoever you pick on.
In an attempt to maintain (appearances of) neutrality, we'd have to spend quite a lot of effort controlling who gets these advertising slots on contested topics; that's going to eat into the profits quite quickly. It's not a simple matter of "and now, open the money pipe"