I'm skeptical of this. Is a private charity promoting an LGBT fundraiser a political ad? What about Fox News pushing an ad about how other news is fake. Or MSNBC pushing an ad about Russia collusion? Was the now infamous Gillette woke ad political? It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
"Political advertising" may be limited to advertising that is bought for by political campaigns and PACs, which they have a previously defined policy for:
> The policy varies across markets but generally applies to ads that advocate for or against a candidate or political party, or ads by candidates and/or entities registered with their respective electoral commission.
edit: as u/ben509 pointed out, the above link only refers to political campaigns. Here's the link that defines "political content" as both campaigns and issue advocacy (at least in the U.S.)
Yeah, "political" is a weasel word like "extremist." A view I like isn't political, it's just common sense or settled science, it's the other guy's views that are "political."
Ah, the "I'm always right" argument. Settled science is an oxymoron. For 100s of years people believed things to be totally settled only for the fundamental concept to be proven false. Anyone who starts up with "settled science" is always relying on faulty reasoning.
Based on what he said, I don't think any of those will be blocked. It sounds like it's talking about campaign ads specifically, whether that's for people or issues.
I'm sure it will be better defined in the final policy.
