No Political Ads? AWESOME Idea!!!

Twitter recently announced that they will not be hosting any political advertising for the 2020 election season.

Some claim this is an infringement of free speech or some claptrap. No, this does not affect freedom of speech. The candidates can still have their own pages, they just cannot pay to promote those pages.

Yes, Facebook and all media should be following the same policy. So should Google. This is the absolute best, most fair system possible at this time.

There is no question that we are not going to get corporate media to cover all candidates equally or objectively. We once had the Fairness Doctrine which enforced equal coverage. Now we have neoliberal media on one side and Conservative media on the other. Corporate media intentionally conducts blackouts of Progressive candidates when not directly attacking them.

What elimination of political advertising does is even the playing field slightly. It means that the campaign with the least money has more chance of visibility, while campaigns with the most money cannot shove their campaign down your throat.

No political advertising also means PACs (Political Action Committees) will not be able to promote their favored candidate or agenda on any media that adopts this policy.

It also basically eliminates any more discussion about “Russians” paying for political ads on Twitter. Or Ukraine or China or whomever else. There can be no accusation of indirect influence via NRA…