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Sigh.

Try again.

The thread is about how an "At last I got mine" attitude towards making money from government propaganda ad revenue is a shit attitude.

You are the one who is out here building windmills to tilt at about bans on government propaganda. That's not something I ever suggested. Nor is it even germane to the thread. Again, you are engaging in some elementary school level straw manning.

One does not need to ban government propaganda, or propaganda generally, to avoid being proud to be paid to spread it. Consider: you could be not proud you sold that ad space. You could not sell that ad space to those people. You could not sell ad space generally. I'm sure one could come up with other ideas as well.

I hope you see now how infantile your diversions are, how juvenile the comments around thinking around corners. You wandered completely off topic and seem quite upset I didn't follow you there, then invented a version of me that did to fight.



so, you have no answer.

I'm proud that anyone who wants to can spread whatever info they want.

I love that I facilitate that.

Every election year my income almost doubles, why? Because people want their opinions heard. I'm glad I can help with that.

You can call the topic whatever you want. I am for the free exchange of ideas, you're against it.

:D


Anyone who wants, in your case, is "whomever pays me the most", which is a far, far cry from "anyone who wants".

You can tell yourself this is the free exchange of ideas all you want, but when it's an auction for who can hold the microphone it's anything but free.


False, it's whomever pays at all. I don't know if you've looked at online advertising costs, but their very affordable. We aren't talking super bowl ads.

mine is "whomever wants" unless you're arguing that online advertising is prohibitively expensive. I'd just have to disagree with that.

In your case it's "whomever is approved" which is a far, far cry from "anyone who wants".


Online ads use an instant auction to sell space. They literally are "whomever will pay the most", so no, not false.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6366577?hl=en

Each ad placement is small cost, but your placement, frequency, and reach is absolutely dictated by how much money you spend.




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