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It doesn't seem like they are actually targetting "extremists" since islamist sharia groups get to stay on facebook while all groups opposing such a movement gets shutdown instantly.
Islamist groups get shut down on Facebook all the time.
> So the trending news section went from left leaning legitimate news stories under human editors to a bunch of spam. Geex, let me guess. You are left leaning too! People like me think mainstream media promotes the most fake news. So it's dangerous to censor any news, being that Truth is a hot topic these days. Disagree? I have plenty of evidence... http://i.4cdn.org/pol/1487334551064.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/pol/148733…
>So it's dangerous to censor any news, being that Truth is a hot topic these days. I disagree, I'm perfectly fine with censoring racist/sexist/homophobic etc. hateful or fascist content. Whether the news falls under that, I don't know, but I sure don't think censorship means 'division'. The idea that words should be awarded an innate right to be said I see no reason for. The rise of the right wing is worrying for a C…
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>So it's dangerous to censor any news, being that Truth is a hot topic these days. I disagree, I'm perfectly fine with censoring racist/sexist/homophobic etc. hateful or fascist content. Whether the news falls under that, I don't know, but I sure don't think censorship means 'division'. The idea that words should be awarded an innate right to be said I see no reason for. The rise of the right wing is worrying for a C…
Most people are tired of censors who propagate their moral rulesets self righteously. In the 70s/80s/90s it was the Christian right against music and video games. Now it's the progressive left against everyone else, calling them nazis, fascists, and alt right. This ostracizes the center so good luck with that...
"So much for the tolerant left!" is probably wat you were going to say next.
I do not call people Nazis and fascists, I wish to remove actual Nazis and fascists from the discourse. Same goes for 'alt-right', a movement composed mainly of toxic "rationalists", anti-feminists, neo-Nazis and the redpill community.
I only intend to refer to these, not others. I have no support for bourgeois progressivism.
I hate facebook not because of this bullshit but because using facebook is so utterly "normal" on the society that some websites are facebook-exclusives (facebook login only), people only seems to like the idea of using the fucking facebook chat for everything and now even customs ask you to unlock your phone so they can analyze your friends... hoping one day, some terrorist attacks facebook servers so we can get rid…
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Amazon is a similar offender. "Oh, you bought a fridge yesterday? How about you buy another one?"
Actually,the really creepy thing about Amazon is that if I use their iPhone app to browse for stuff I get ads on my Facebook account for the stuff I searched. Mind you, I am near tinfoil-level conscious of "cross contamination". I use Firefox on iOS for Facebook, and I never use it for any other browsing other than FB. My name is not my real name on FB, and it's written in a non-latin alphabet. I never discuss produc…
If you're logged in during your browsing, Amazon knows who you are. If you're not logged in, they presumably have enough heuristics to estimate who you are (based on previous logins from the device).
I don't know about their current programmatic bidding capabilities, but even on their Facebook's normal self-serve platform you can be targeted specifically by email (there's a minimum audience size for pseudo-anonymity purposes, but it's only like ~20 individuals).
Edit: You can go here[1] to see the list of advertisers that currently have you in their audience lists for ad targeting. Currently mine has Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, one of Netflix's new shows listed, and some weird political thing that isn't even for the state that I live in.
There's no way this can work well IRL. I was talking to a friend who follows the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Apparently, the terrorists knew (correctly, I presume) that phone calls were being monitored. So they switched to using allusions in their conversations. Grenades became "potatoes". An AK-47 became a "broom". Explosives became "flour". And so on. So a request for more arms sounded like a shoppi…
I hate facebook not because of this bullshit but because using facebook is so utterly "normal" on the society that some websites are facebook-exclusives (facebook login only), people only seems to like the idea of using the fucking facebook chat for everything and now even customs ask you to unlock your phone so they can analyze your friends... hoping one day, some terrorist attacks facebook servers so we can get rid…
What customs have you gone through where they do that? I travel internationally regularly and have yet to come across this.
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Most people are tired of censors who propagate their moral rulesets self righteously. In the 70s/80s/90s it was the Christian right against music and video games. Now it's the progressive left against everyone else, calling them nazis, fascists, and alt right. This ostracizes the center so good luck with that...
>Now it's the progressive left against everyone else, calling them nazis, fascists, and alt right. This ostracizes the center so good luck with that... "So much for the tolerant left!" is probably wat you were going to say next. I do not call people Nazis and fascists, I wish to remove actual Nazis and fascists from the discourse. Same goes for 'alt-right', a movement composed mainly of toxic "rationalists", anti-fem…
Well then I can only beg you to ponder about the consequences of ostracizing a large proportion of people to this "alt-right".
Defenders of free speech, and enemies of censors, in todays political climate, will gain popularity versus opposing ideologies which the political elite espouse or pretend to espouse like globalization (relevant as Zuckerberg mentioned this).
I'm curious how you see this turning out in the US especially, being that Trump is president and they have the 1st amendment. And it seems the main target of fake news is alternative media and conservative media, which are rallying around each other due to being attacked.
The newer target is Trump calling MSM fake news, trying to turn the whole smear campaign against them. I'm curious what a self professed communist thinks where this will end up? Did you know PewDiePie was a Nazi?
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>So it's dangerous to censor any news, being that Truth is a hot topic these days. I disagree, I'm perfectly fine with censoring racist/sexist/homophobic etc. hateful or fascist content. Whether the news falls under that, I don't know, but I sure don't think censorship means 'division'. The idea that words should be awarded an innate right to be said I see no reason for. The rise of the right wing is worrying for a C…
i can't even tell if your post is satire.
Obviously fascism is wrong, but I don't think PewDiePie or Trump are Nazis...