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Title (and headline of TFA) is misleading, as Facebook didn't ban a film, it rejected a user from using its ads program based on the film's title. Will be interesting to see if the lawsuit goes anywhere.
I mean, they're not banned from Facebook, but the title didn't say that either. It said that the company Facebook banned a film. Which it did.
I assume they ban pretty much everything about the period 1925 to 1945 as race, national origin and probably gender was real prominent. And talk about the violence…
I'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 e…
> 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.. Do you seriously believe it was Facebook that caused the film to fail?
The reason is the movie being titled "Beautiful Blue Eyes", we live in a time of pure insanity.
The problem is that no automatic method we have now will catch context. There is a difference between "Jews were murdered by Germans during war" and "Jews destroyed German economy before the war" that will not be recognized by any machine we have nowadays. The first is true, the second is bullshit, how algorithm can now this? More, even if Facebook employees humans to do moderation still for some contractor from Asia…
My ad account got randomly shut down a few days ago too. Was reapproved after review but never was I given a reason. I hate that big companies can get away with this.
I do wonder though... a lot of the ability for these companies to even exist at this scale is because they use a small amount of ppl in the loop.
So was it worth it to let these behemoths prosper so we can get these services for a low price, but suffer these sort of consequences?
Nothing will hasten the downfall of the monstrosity that Facebook has become faster that the strictest possible adherence to and advancement of this policy.
I mean, that is also the first thought I had when I read the title, even before delving into the article. If instead of "beautiful blue eyes" it was "silky smooth pale white skin", would it then be different? For once I think Facebook is right. Poor choice of a film title, that, especially considering the theme of the film.
There were lots of people with beautiful blue eyes and silky smooth pale white skin that perished in the Holocaust... Eyeballing the difference between Ashkenazi and a regular person from Central or Eastern Europe is mission impossible.