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[DRAFT] Ban Sponsored Ads on Social Media

Postby Grandma EK » Sun Jan 19, 2025 11:55 pm

The World Assembly,

Recognizing that across the many nations of the World Assembly people dislike seeing sponsored advertising in the content that people make on social media,

Understanding that many of these advertisements are illegitimate scams,

Noticing the discontent that the public of most nations have with advertising,

Hereby enacts the following:

1. Paid sponsorship segments in social media content
a. A content creator is not allowed to accept any form of money to verbally endorse a product in their content.
b. A content creator is not allowed to accept any form of money to subtly include a product throughout a piece of content.
c. A content creator is not allowed to have a recurring sponsorship on any of their content.

2. Unpaid endorsements in social media content
a. Content creators are allowed to endorse products if not affiliated with the company in question in any way.
b. A content creator must directly say that their endorsement is not affiliated with the company.

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Postby Of The Revived Soviet Union » Sun Jan 19, 2025 11:58 pm

Grandma EK wrote:The World Assembly,

Recognizing that across the many nations of the World Assembly people dislike seeing sponsored advertising in the content that people make on social media,

Understanding that many companies such as Candy end up being scams to both the creator and the viewer,

Noticing that people comment timestamps in the comments of social media videos where the sponsored segment starts so people can skip through them,

Hereby enact that:

1. Paid sponsorship segments in social media content
a. A content creator is not allowed to accept any form of money to verbally endorse a product in their content.
b. A content creator is not allowed to accept any form of money to subtly include a product throughout a piece of content.
c. A content creator is not allowed to have a recurring sponsorship on every one of their pieces of content.

2. Unpaid endorsements in social media content
a. Content creators ARE allowed to endorse products if not affiliated with the company in question in any way.
a1. This applies to blog posts as well
b. A content creator must directly say that their endorsement is not affiliated with the company.

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sure, I support for the funnies.

Although I do want to fix up the formatting and what not, as well as grammar.
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Postby Tinhampton » Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:39 am

Opposed. I would support a ban on undisclosed partnerships, however.
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Postby Kasdados » Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:41 am

Would ads count?
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Postby Tinhampton » Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:47 am

Kasdados wrote:Would ads count?

This proposal only applies to "content creators." Hosting platforms do not create content, they only host it, so they remain within their right to ensure that adverts are carried on those places where content creators may post, separately from such content (whether as pre-roll and mid-roll ads, associated banner ads, pop-up ads, or otherwise).
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Postby Kasdados » Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:50 am

Tinhampton wrote:
Kasdados wrote:Would ads count?

This proposal only applies to "content creators." Hosting platforms do not create content, they only host it, so they remain within their right to ensure that adverts are carried on those places where content creators may post, separately from such content (whether as pre-roll and mid-roll ads, associated banner ads, pop-up ads, or otherwise).

So, how would creators make money?
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Postby Alkzine » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:40 am

full support.
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Postby The Byrdlands » Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:25 am

Opposed, this is a completely ridiculous proposal. Not only is this absolutely not an issue that the WA should be legislating on, it would also absolutely kill the livelihoods of many content creators. Sponsorships are an incredibly important part of many content creator's revenue, and often make up the bulk of it. To ban sponsorships outright would put immense strain on many innocent people just trying to make a living.

Like Tin says, a proposal banning undisclosed partnerships would be better, but I also just believe this is far too small of an issue for the WA to be effective in enforcing.
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Postby Kasdados » Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:51 am

The Byrdlands wrote:Opposed, this is a completely ridiculous proposal. Not only is this absolutely not an issue that the WA should be legislating on, it would also absolutely kill the livelihoods of many content creators. Sponsorships are an incredibly important part of many content creator's revenue, and often make up the bulk of it. To ban sponsorships outright would put immense strain on many innocent people just trying to make a living.

Like Tin says, a proposal banning undisclosed partnerships would be better, but I also just believe this is far too small of an issue for the WA to be effective in enforcing.

Exactly. Unless, of course, we make content-creation an officially recognised occupation, in which case they would be paid by their employer (the platform).
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Postby Seroscapia » Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:01 am

The Byrdlands wrote:Opposed, this is a completely ridiculous proposal. Not only is this absolutely not an issue that the WA should be legislating on, it would also absolutely kill the livelihoods of many content creators. Sponsorships are an incredibly important part of many content creator's revenue, and often make up the bulk of it. To ban sponsorships outright would put immense strain on many innocent people just trying to make a living.

Like Tin says, a proposal banning undisclosed partnerships would be better, but I also just believe this is far too small of an issue for the WA to be effective in enforcing.

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Postby Providence Plantations and Rhode Island » Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:13 am

I support this with better grammar and formatting. But yes, will definitely support.
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Postby Grandma EK » Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:29 pm

Kasdados wrote:
Tinhampton wrote:This proposal only applies to "content creators." Hosting platforms do not create content, they only host it, so they remain within their right to ensure that adverts are carried on those places where content creators may post, separately from such content (whether as pre-roll and mid-roll ads, associated banner ads, pop-up ads, or otherwise).

So, how would creators make money?

The platform can still host ads
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Postby Elyreia » Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:38 pm

Grandma EK wrote:
Kasdados wrote:So, how would creators make money?

The platform can still host ads


Why would the platform opt to pay content creators for their own ad revenue they collect? Twitch isn't exactly rolling in positive cash inflow right now.
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Postby The Ice States » Mon Jan 20, 2025 2:10 pm

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"Substantively, unfortunately I must find myself in agreement with the Byrdish and Tinhamptonian Ambassadors that the principle behind this draft is, while well-meaning, undesirable in itself. Rather than reducing public discontent regarding advertising, the effect would be to reduce individuals' willingness to place information on the internet as they have less means to derive income from it. In addition, we do not believe a practice of the free market should be prohibited absent a clear and significant harm caused by the practice. Merely causing annoyance to some individuals is not significant enough harm to merit a prohibition."

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Postby Zherid » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:24 pm

Zherid OPPOSES ON PRINCIPLE. This bill would kill the livelihoods of thousands of small creators, restricts freedom of speech, and is costly and burdensome to enforce.

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Postby The Overmind » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:47 pm

Can you elaborate more on why you think this proposal is necessary and should be legislated at the international level? Perhaps there is a more measured response to your concerns than this.
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Postby Pathonia » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:54 pm

We'd probably oppose on IC grounds, it'd likely harm what few independent social media outlets there are here by depriving them of a main source of revenue, and probably forcing them to resort to requiring paid subscriptions by their users instead.

At least, I think so, I might've misread what a 'sponsored ad' is, which in my mind is really just an ad put up by an entity on a website, in exchange for paying the site to host the ad in question.

OOCly, I think the benefit of ad-less social media probably wouldn't make up for the draconian measures those sites would need to resort to in order to make money, unless you wanted to perhaps include a provision forcing the governments of member-states to finance social media outlets.

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Probably still would oppose, as it seems restricting, though my opposition is far weaker than it otherwise would have been.
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Postby Liberza » Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:00 pm

Opposed, don’t think this is particularly necessary legislation.

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Postby The Byrdlands » Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:08 pm

Pathonia wrote:We'd probably oppose on IC grounds, it'd likely harm what few independent social media outlets there are here by depriving them of a main source of revenue, and probably forcing them to resort to requiring paid subscriptions by their users instead.

At least, I think so, I might've misread what a 'sponsored ad' is, which in my mind is really just an ad put up by an entity on a website, in exchange for paying the site to host the ad in question.

OOCly, I think the benefit of ad-less social media probably wouldn't make up for the draconian measures those sites would need to resort to in order to make money, unless you wanted to perhaps include a provision forcing the governments of member-states to finance social media outlets.

Note that this proposal does not ban a platform's own built in ads, just the ability of creators to take on sponsorships independently.
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Postby Grandma EK » Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:06 pm

How do I know if my proposal goes into voting?
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Postby The Overmind » Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:12 pm

Grandma EK wrote:How do I know if my proposal goes into voting?

You would need to submit, monitor its approvals, and keep track of its place in the queue here, but it would be entirely too soon to submit this. The rule of thumb is one month of active drafting in the forum before submission, and longer for more complex or controversial topics. This is very unlikely to pass in its current form, and it's not clear that it would pass in any form without getting more of a pulse on how the proposal is being received in principle.
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Postby Grandma EK » Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:30 pm

Do I have to submit a draft here?
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Postby The Overmind » Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:31 pm

Grandma EK wrote:Do I have to submit a draft here?

Have to? No. Is it recommended? Yes.
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Postby Grandma EK » Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:32 pm

Has anybody ever succeeded having a proposal submitted without having a draft here?
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Postby Of The Revived Soviet Union » Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:34 pm

Grandma EK wrote:Has anybody ever succeeded having a proposal submitted without having a draft here?

Yeah, if you mean as in reach quorum.

Then get absolutely shredded in the vote.
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