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Google Will Ban Bail-Bond Ads (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the end-of-the-line dept.

First Google banned ads from payday lenders in 2016, now it will no longer allow ads from bail-bond companies. Ars Technica reports: In a blog post, the company suggested that such ads constitute a "deceptive or harmful product," citing a 2016 study concluding that minority and low-income communities are typically most affected by such services. "For-profit bail-bond providers make most of their revenue from communities of color and low-income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable, including through opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years," Google wrote. Also in 2016, another study found that "there are 646,000 people locked up in more than 3,000 local jails throughout the U.S.," simply for their inability to pay a bond, which is what drives many people to the services of a bondsman. The change will take effect in July 2018.

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  1. this is a mistake by WindBourne · · Score: 0, Troll

    There will be a number of GOP that are about to be indicted. They will need bail bonding at that time.

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
    1. Re:this is a mistake by Brett+Buck · · Score: 0, Troll

      John Kerry violated the Logan Act and committed treason, *for the 3rd time*, just the other day. After a year and a half of witch hunting, nothing aside from highly dubious "process crimes" has ever surfaced against anyone in the current administration. On the other hand, FISA warrants were acquired under false pretenses and used to spy on a presidential candidate and then predident-elect, while covering the now incontrovertible fact that the entire investigation was based on an opposition research paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

            I don't think republicans are the ones who are going to need bail.

  2. Re:Let them eat cake by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 1, Troll

    Simple -- Google should combine this with other advertising games. Figure out which candidates for local DA and/or judgeships are rabid drug warriors and/or "law and order" types, bought and paid for by the incarceration industry. Allow their ads, just quietly de-prioritize them in favor of their opponents. Do the same for ads run by cop and jailer unions and private prison shills.