Earlier quoted context omitted.
Such as rap music?
Please don't do this here.
Do what?
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#213I would boycott Facebook for other reasons than them not boycotting Trump ads. Facebook is simply a TERRIBLE company. They make us lose billions of hours and created a mental health epidemic, especially in teenagers that cannot stop comparing themselves with other's fake life on Facebook. That is a good enough reason to not want to advertise on that platform.
Accusing Facebook in that it’s like accusing sugar companies in diabetes. Not saying the problem doesn’t exist, but maybe they just abuse Facebook? I’m spending around 10 minutes a week in my fb account, checking on friends and family, that’s mostly enough. What stops you from doing the same?
Some books you might benefit from reading on this topic:
“Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”
“The Attention Merchants” by Tim Wu
Re: Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott
#214Conspiracy theory: These advertiser boycotts are just making it cheaper for the Trump campaign to buy targeted political ads.
Doesn’t even matter if this is intended, it is the outcome. 2020 really is the year of peak stupidity - I hope 2021 is an improvement.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
You think his marketing team randomly chose from a selection of polygons to run as the primary image on a national ad campaign? The Trump administration loves their dog whistles.
If Trump got a swastika face tattoo and posted a video of himself goose stepping on the white house lawn, do you think we should see that, or should the media censor and hide that from us?
Are you asking me if I think Facebook should have to host that content? Naw, seems like a better fit for tiktok.
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Posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait.
It's a perfectly valid comment to people who want to get rid of "hate speech" but say nothing about the popularity of gangsta rap within this same crowd. I never understood this.
People are going to assume that you're bringing this up as a trope of culture war and race war, and I'm doubtful that they would be particularly wrong to assume that. That makes it flamebait, which is against the site guidelines. Please don't post like that to HN.
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If Hillary would have won none of this would have been a problem.
What would Hillary have done that would have avoided this situation? This is a dispute between two private companies, and there's not a clear piece of legislation that would prevent this, especially one that would be approved by Congress.
Nuclear war with Russia would have ended the human race already?
Re: Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott
#219I would boycott Facebook for other reasons than them not boycotting Trump ads. Facebook is simply a TERRIBLE company. They make us lose billions of hours and created a mental health epidemic, especially in teenagers that cannot stop comparing themselves with other's fake life on Facebook. That is a good enough reason to not want to advertise on that platform.
Accusing Facebook in that it’s like accusing sugar companies in diabetes. Not saying the problem doesn’t exist, but maybe they just abuse Facebook? I’m spending around 10 minutes a week in my fb account, checking on friends and family, that’s mostly enough. What stops you from doing the same?
I spend zero minutes a year on FB. I still recognize that it harms those who do use it.
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#220The 'brand safety' shoe was about to drop for a couple years, and by definition it requires Facebook start deciding what's bad and what's good. I hope Zuck has a plan, it's uncharacteristic for him to commit this hard to an approach and not have a way out...
If facebook gives in to moderation based on silicon valley politics they're done for.