Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election

Post by hnracer » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 2:36 PM UTC

UncleMeat wrote: post #172

hnracer wrote: post #134

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I would also expect somebody to not march alongside neo-marxists and self-professed communists (antifa) with a history of violent extremism (according to the FBI director Wray) but there you go. > Support for the Lee statue has never been seriously about history This is irrelevant to the question of whether there were non-white supremacists in attendance. What matters as to people's motives is whether people think th…

Then your conclusion should be that there were no fine people on either side, not that there were. If you truly believe that leftism is as evil as racial genocide then actually stand by that. If ignorance leads you to provide ammunition for people who support racial genocide and you don’t leave once you notice the nazi flags flying at a march you attend... I really don’t know what to say.

Post by zo1 » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

lanevorockz wrote: post #140

schwinn140 wrote: post #136

Simple solutions: * Block all political ads all the time. * Require all political parties, and their PACS, to register as a known Advertiser account within the system. Any time an ad runs, and regardless of the source, the associated party will be heavily penalized with a removal of their non-paid content. There needs to be ramifications for their abuse of the platform. Being that Facebook can't charge them a fine, p…

Only if they wanted a fair balance, I think Facebook is just aiming to under advertise Conservatives. There is no secret that about 95% of all donations from Silicon Valley goes to Democrats. It won't take too long until the whole world is a mirror of California.

    Netflix           = 98%
    Nvidia            = 93%
    Adobe             = 93%
    IBM               = 90%
    Salesforce        = 89%
    Google            = 88%
    Microsoft         = 85%
    Apple             = 84%
    Paypal            = 84%
    Cisco             = 80%
    Amazon            = 77%
    Facebook          = 77%
    Intel             = 68%
    Broadcom          = 68%
    Oracle            = 67%
    Texas Instruments = 60%
    Qualcomm          = 50%

Post by driverdan » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

engineer_22 wrote: post #103

duncan_bayne wrote: post #76

You know, there's only one thing that bothers me more than political organisers spreading fear and misinformation through social networks. And that's social networks becoming "Ministries of Truth", deciding for themselves what information is fit to be shared with the masses, and what must be suppressed. I mean, all the evidence we've seen over the years suggests that Facebook is in no way, shape, or form trustworthy.

I'm bothered that there seems to be a vocal subset on HN who say that freedom of speech doesn't apply to these platforms.

Post by ogre_codes » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 2:46 PM UTC

lettergram wrote: post #119

ogre_codes wrote: post #18

This just seems like too little, too late. Much of the problems I see aren't advertising in the traditional sense, but viral content from sketchy sources. If they wanted to seriously affect this, they would prevent posts from spreading to tens of thousands/ millions of people without being vetted.

> Much of the problems I see aren't advertising in the traditional sense, but viral content from sketchy sources. Define a credible source? We know for a fact all the major news outlets edit photos, often don’t use their own reporters, write sensational articles (actively stretching facts). No, I don’t think we can say what is a “sketchy” source. Unless we start wanting Facebook to moderate truth (or just accept the…

Post by mindslight » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 2:49 PM UTC

blackflame7000 wrote: post #184

GavinMcG wrote: post #177

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No, but I can't bring to mind any that have denounced white supremacy. Which is why I'm asking.

Does this work for you? https://streamable.com/sr9o2s Edit: People on this forum need to stop being so cultish. Downvoting this doesn’t change the reality that it directly kills your narrative.