It’s not a surprise that advertisers and PR firms are ruining society on countless levels. These are the people who invented billboards and popup ads after all.
Because the minds of the owning class that run these companies are twisted and only care about the Almighty Profit Incentive™
They don’t care if their products are harming people because they don’t care about you, the consumer, after you’ve bought the product. They got their profit out of you. Any bad press about it can be minimized with marketing campaigns to obscure the facts from the general, uninformed public. Prime example of this is Big Tobacco’s efforts over the decades to hide the harmful effects of smoking before they could no longer keep a lid on it.
The censorship nonsense is surrounded by arbitrary, prudish culture bullshit which ad companies care about because they want to be able to market to the widest available audience, so they don’t want to purchase ad space with platforms that permit anything controversial, thus platforms which rely on ad revenue for profit choose to enforce censorship so that those ad companies will choose to buy their ad space.
When asking “why do companies do [X]” it is always about profit.
Of course it’s about profit, but how does censorship increase profits? In the end, I think it is because people don’t want to see bad words when they are doing something that’s supposed to make them feel good: consuming.
Advertisers would happily use bad words if that would increase their sales, but I assume it actually hurts their sales, so they don’t want them anywhere near their ad campaigns.
Yea, that’s what I explained at the end there. Bad words would hurt their sales, so they don’t want to advertise on sites that don’t censor to avoid being associated. So the websites, which rely on ad revenue for their profits, are the ones who engage in censorship to attract companies into buying their ad space, thus ensuring profitability.
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But why do corporations want to censor bad words when they don’t care if their products are harming or even killing people?
Because they can’t show certain types of ads in proximity to certain things.
They have agreemeents with ad-buyers etc.
Usually it’s about nudity or swearing but probably non-PG or nsfw topics wre included in some too.
It’s not a surprise that advertisers and PR firms are ruining society on countless levels. These are the people who invented billboards and popup ads after all.
Because the minds of the owning class that run these companies are twisted and only care about the Almighty Profit Incentive™
They don’t care if their products are harming people because they don’t care about you, the consumer, after you’ve bought the product. They got their profit out of you. Any bad press about it can be minimized with marketing campaigns to obscure the facts from the general, uninformed public. Prime example of this is Big Tobacco’s efforts over the decades to hide the harmful effects of smoking before they could no longer keep a lid on it.
The censorship nonsense is surrounded by arbitrary, prudish culture bullshit which ad companies care about because they want to be able to market to the widest available audience, so they don’t want to purchase ad space with platforms that permit anything controversial, thus platforms which rely on ad revenue for profit choose to enforce censorship so that those ad companies will choose to buy their ad space.
When asking “why do companies do [X]” it is always about profit.
Of course it’s about profit, but how does censorship increase profits? In the end, I think it is because people don’t want to see bad words when they are doing something that’s supposed to make them feel good: consuming.
Advertisers would happily use bad words if that would increase their sales, but I assume it actually hurts their sales, so they don’t want them anywhere near their ad campaigns.
Yea, that’s what I explained at the end there. Bad words would hurt their sales, so they don’t want to advertise on sites that don’t censor to avoid being associated. So the websites, which rely on ad revenue for their profits, are the ones who engage in censorship to attract companies into buying their ad space, thus ensuring profitability.