Hulu is refusing to run Democrats' midterm campaign ads on topics like guns and abortion, per a Monday report by The Washington Post. Democrats are calling Hulu's decision "censorship of the truth." Not really; it's just a decision by a private company not to interrupt its users' chill weeknight TV time with footage of the January 6 riots.
On July 15, Democratic campaign groups tried to buy spots for gun- and abortion-related ads on YouTube, Facebook, Roku, and traditional cable TV. They successfully placed those ads. But the spots they tried to buy on Hulu, which is owned by Disney, ended up never being aired, due to the company's longstanding policy against ads deemed too controversial.
