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#42I 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.
I realize this was a weird time and masks have been a complicated topic. However:
I advertised some masks my grandma has sewn on FB. It was ok, expansive clicks like always but ok. This was running for at least a week or two. But when I changed some text it triggered a new ad review and within no hour my account was banned. It didn't even took a hour to deny my appeal as well and my account was lost forever (without ever naming any reason)
This account had 50+ (harmless) groups with way over 100k followers as well as a few thousand dollars in ad spend just that year. I didn't socialize at all on Facebook which I guess made my account fishy to some degree but all data was correct and passport verified.
This is the reason I completely ignore Facebook and all its platforms for whatever reason these days. I don't care if it could help my business, it's not worth the trouble.
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#43I've been working with Alex for just over a year now. He’s never political, super nice guy, focused on creating beautiful art.
This is a major blow to the team. If your not backed by Sony or Paramount, ads (especially in the first week) can be the deciding factor in whether you make it or not..
When he told me what happened, I refused to believe him "There is no way they banned you over blue eyes". Unlike Alex, I'm extremely cynical about censorship & social justice politics but even I couldn't accept they would do something this asinine.
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#44We really need to stop thinking about social networking sites as private companies, and think about them as the public spaces they actually are. It isn't good for society for a few companies to have a strangle hold on what can be said online. I do kind of feel for them in some ways because you have different nations with different norms and laws, but the answer isn't some lowest common denominator, and ridding the we…
Why should we consider them public spaces when they are private companies?
And social media companies only control what is said on their platform not "online" aka the entire internet as you said
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#45The reason is the movie being titled "Beautiful Blue Eyes", we live in a time of pure insanity.
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Re: Facebook bans Holocaust film for violating race policy
#46I 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
What about the Beatles?!
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I'm sorry, appealing to in-group/out-group bias is a horrible way to address a point, regardless of what the point is.
Debate is literally appealing to in-group/out-group bias. The purpose of debate is to try to influence that bias. The weird thing about debate is that the most ridiculous claims have the most evidence against them, and are therefore the most work to refute with sources. Claiming that the earth is flat takes a lot more evidence to refute than claiming that the earth has slightly incorrect parameters of oblate spheroid…
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#48The reason is the movie being titled "Beautiful Blue Eyes", we live in a time of pure insanity.
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Ironic ? per the article : "the film’s title, which refers to the eye color of a child who perished at the hands of the Nazis and invokes a key scene in the movie"
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#50"This is the action of haters – and there are sadly many in our society – who seek to damage the film in order to trivialize the Holocaust" Newton told Rolling Stone at the Toronto Film Festival.
There are a lot of stupid things Facebook is doing, but why, of all things, would you accuse them of trivializing the Holocaust? If anything, this kind of accusations (using the Holocaust as a defense for everything) trivializes the Holocaust.