Ads on Controversial Content

The cluster centers on advertisers refusing to place ads next to unethical, abusive, or controversial content, prompting platforms to moderate accordingly, alongside debates on ad ethics, regulations, and outright bans on advertising.

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Sample Comments

freeone3000 Dec 12, 2017 View on HN

The advertisers themselves saying they don't want their ads shown on this content.

CatWChainsaw Jul 3, 2023 View on HN

Ads should be against the law. :)

nullc Jan 7, 2015 View on HN

It stinks that the adverts aren't required to meet the constraint.

pvg May 3, 2017 View on HN

If you're an advertising platform, you can choose what sort of products are advertised on it. All of them do. You can, quite reasonably, decline to advertise things that are unethical. For instance, predatory loans. You are choosing not to profit off the misery of others. This is not nearly as complicated as you make it out to be.

sillysaurus3 Apr 24, 2018 View on HN

It's not about what advertisers don't like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8n78AuN3w

EugeneOZ Oct 18, 2016 View on HN

Only content owner should decide what ad will be shown. Offending this rule means breaking deals with advertisers, it's reputation losses.

mfatica Jun 9, 2019 View on HN

Banning advertising of something is a bit different than banning the thing itself

swayvil Apr 6, 2025 View on HN

Illegalize advertising. Then intensely monitor every conversation everywhere always for advertizational content.

DannoHung Jul 19, 2013 View on HN

People don't want their products advertised next to porn.

intelVISA Oct 31, 2022 View on HN

I guess advertizing is malinformation, wonder how this'll affect big adtech giants. ~:)