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Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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>>This is fundamentally anti-White hate-porn that plays into tired and often ridiculously racist "Nazi" stereotypes. I literally cannot believe anyone would write this in earnest. Please tell me it's some kind of (very poor) joke.

Whether or not OP is serious, people holding opinions like this (e.g., it’s possible to be racist against Nazis, who incidentally are not a race but rather a political affiliation) certainly exist. It’s a sad state of affairs.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word "beat" in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money. Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem... Facebook is the worst.

By the same twisted logic, the Beat Generation instills people to violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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No, this is the result of the laziness of social networks to look for automated solutions to solve at-scale (read: at the lowest cost) problems of their own making. More generally this is the result of giving free rein on global discourse to unregulated companies, who ultimately took full advantage and profiteed off of it.

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Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word "beat" in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money. Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem... Facebook is the worst.

Algorithm-based AI supersystem proactively defends itself.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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Honest question,

What would happen if we assume that those with low self esteem self-select to match the toxicity in their head in choices of social media consumption and choice of social media platforms?

Somewhat the kissing-cousin to the observation that those 1-percenters on social media that create such as GaryVee do not use sm platforms like the bottom 99 percent.

I.E., SM platforms are a mirror in showing that we still have somewhat a broken humanity society structure.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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>>This is fundamentally anti-White hate-porn that plays into tired and often ridiculously racist "Nazi" stereotypes. I literally cannot believe anyone would write this in earnest. Please tell me it's some kind of (very poor) joke.

Whether or not OP is serious, people holding opinions like this (e.g., it’s possible to be racist against Nazis, who incidentally are not a race but rather a political affiliation) certainly exist. It’s a sad state of affairs.

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Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, this is the result of the laziness of social networks to look for automated solutions to solve at-scale (read: at the lowest cost) problems of their own making. More generally this is the result of giving free rein on global discourse to unregulated companies, who ultimately took full advantage and profiteed off of it.

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Removing incitements to violence seems like a good thing, and I would guess their customers (the advertisers) fully support it. The fact that they do it so badly is entirely on them.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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I was just talking to an author who published an ad on Facebook for their sci fi book. They had the word "beat" in the ad. The FB algo said that words intills people to violence, banned her account for 2 months, and kept all the ad money. Funny enough, her book is about the dangers of an algorithm-based AI supersystem... Facebook is the worst.

What was the full sentence? I've marketed a lot of games on Facebook with much worse words (kill etc) and never had a problem. Also, kept money how? Facebook charges you in arrears.

Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy

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There's a sector of society that unironically uses phrases such as "anti-White hate-porn". Do you really want to be part of that sector?

I'm sorry, appealing to in-group/out-group bias is a horrible way to address a point, regardless of what the point is.
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