# It's time to ban all political ad targeting . . . everywhere - without bullshit

<https://withoutbullshit.com/blog/its-time-to-ban-all-political-ad-targeting-everywhere>

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## What Jamie wrote

I can completely get behind this idea.

> But if we don’t ban ads outright, why ban targeting? Because everyone should see what political advertisers are doing. I don’t want political advertisers showing one message to Democrats and another to Republicans, or one to men and another to women, or one to people who clicked on a website about abortion and another to those who visited a site about guns.

I agree with the thesis. You can go ahead and advertise whatever you want, but it needs to be in the open where a lot of people can see it. I like the idea of **only** targeting by geography. That makes sense for political messages. But you shouldn't be able to send some dark message to only your followers.

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- [WT127: Weekly Thing #127 / Nov 23, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/127/), Notable Links 📌

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