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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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.