What do you mean "reality"? We're talking about political issue ads here. Is it "reality" to be constantly nagged/threatened/scared to agree with all kinds of contradictory things in every possible place?
Yes.
but also (in the US) that mass shootings are happening on an increasing basis, fascism is on the rise, women no longer have a right to abortion, corporations are given increasing amounts of personhood, the medical system is broken, infrastructure is falling apart, covid - and all that entails, a huge chunk of the population is brainwashed into thinking the election was rigged and refuses to acknowledge evidence to the contrary...
but yeah, also, ads.
> but yeah, also, ads.
No, the issue isn't ads per se. No one's complaining here about some funny beer commercial. And frankly, ads are literally nothing but short-form propaganda, which makes them even more obnoxious and inappropriate for political issues.
Freedom of speech means putting up with people saying things that you don't agree with or want to hear. Deal with it.
Stop using hulu, or pay more for more to opt out of advertisements. You do not have a right to ad-free entertainment.
You live in a society where money talks and bullshit walks. It would seem that there's more money for disney in showing you those ads than they're making off of the people that may cancel their subscriptions due to running the ads.
Did you have an account on Parler, by any chance?
You're not making a distinction between expressing yourself and imposing yourself. One is fine; the other is rude, inconsiderate, and frankly alienating.
In the place we go to explicitly and purposefully escape reality temporarily. Entertainment.
How can you expect disney, the largest entertainment company in the world, to disconnect you from reality? By using hulu at all you're explicitly opting into reality. By being on the internet at all, you're participating in reality.
You can of course opt to participate in reality and try to adjust it to your liking. Most of it you have quite little control over, though.
I pay for the ad-free tier. I guess you can "opt out of reality" after all.
And there's no real reason why a company can't exclude specific types of ads its customers are likely to find (particularly) annoying.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
So would you agree that reality in 2020 was having some asshole get in your face without a mask, and if you didn't like it, then you should have been reminded that "this is reality, deal with it"?
Because they want my money? The entire point of Disney is disconnecting from reality.