How Google, Facebook are monopolising ideas

An ad ban raises the question whether it's fair that an entire industry can be kicked out of a major advertising channel

In early May Google banned bail-bond companies from advertising on its platforms. Such companies profit from “communities of colour and low income neighbourhoods when they are at their most vulnerable”, it explained in a blog post. They use “opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years”.
 
That Google can ban ads from an industry that offends its values is not, by itself, noteworthy. Media companies have long decided what content or ads to carry for the same reason. The difference is that even after decades of consolidation, no media company enjoys a U.S. market