On 24/10/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
5. 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"
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