Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

lerner.co.il

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 514 posts

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#171

Post by sydneycatalyst »

I a digital forensics investigator who owns a small business. I was also banned for life from advertising. Not told why but the only thing I’ve changed is that I started teaching a social media evidence course at university - then almost immediately banned.

Facebook/Meta don’t accept messages from people banned for life. The NSW small business ombudsman won’t touch the case because they only will resolve cases with companies that have Australian contact details.

My history on Facebook is pretty boring. Family photos and news about my advocacy for blind and low vision people and the occasional work post. Pretty mundane stuff.

This article is useful because I thought I was the only one.

I’m not sure about my next steps. I am probably required to notify the uni but I also don’t want to create trouble for them.

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#172

Post by hackerlight »

skeletal88 wrote: post #112
lbriner wrote: post #47

The whole issue around not telling you what rule you broke "because then you might work around it" is total BS. It's like a company I complained to the other day because they didn't label one of the inputs on their password reset form because "it would help a hacker know what to type in it" (it was the password reset password they expected but you wouldn't know). How much quicker would this be resolved if the first A…

In 1984 they don't have laws, only crimes, so whatever you do, you have to guess if it is illegal and will be punished or not. It is on purpose to keep the population in constant fear

Fear isn't the point here. It's just normal corporate ass covering. If you don't know, you can't complain coherently.

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#174

Post by Xixi »

Aeolun wrote: post #123
Xixi wrote: post #44

AIs and other opaque processes making decisions are incredibly frustrating. I'm still wondering why my tea-of-the-month business [0] got turned down by Stripe when I incorporated an LLC (technically a Godo Kaisha, as it is incorporated in Japan). It came as a surprise as it was perfectly fine by them for as long as it was a sole proprietorship. Which is why I strongly suspect the rejection came from an AI. At the tim…

You can always contact them? I can’t say my experience with their support has been anything like good, but we did eventually resolve the problem. Apparently Stripe has great difficulty with non-Japanese people, living in Japan, owning a company overseas.

We tried, to no avail, just got the same unhelpful answer each time. Although we didn’t push too much, as we were still relying on the sole proprietorship account, and didn’t want to jeopardize that!

Now that we’re 90% done with the migration to PayPal, I think we can try again…

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#175

Post by m4tthumphrey »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #76

I'm banned for life from all Facebook properties (except for WhatsApp) because of my surname. They believe it's fake (or too controversial) and a copy of my passport hasn't changed their minds. I used to have a Facebook account ~13 years ago before their real name policy came into force, but I closed it because I found it awkward to refuse or accept so many contact requests by people from my distant past. Now unfortu…

I had a friend called Harry Potter who had a fun time trying to sign up to Facebook back in the day!

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#176

Post by otikik »

Lio wrote: post #93
m4rtink wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not telling you whats wrong should be highly ilegal, given how important these systems can be for modern society.

I'd prefer it if we legislated that organisations can't exclusively rely on closed systems like Facebook/Meta to run their services. I saw a sign last year for forestry service work happening locally to me. Apparently they're only going to provide safety announcements on Facebook. Shit like that grinds my gears. Meta's users aren't citizens, they're serfs. :(

"Technofeudalism" is a term that already exists, actually. Here's Cory Doctorow reviewing Yanis Varoufakis's book about it: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#177

Post by specproc »

Anchor wrote: post #138
0xpgm wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And some of these companies pride themselves as AI technology pioneers. Yet it seems their automated systems in this case are simply doing keyword matching. Mind-boggling!

Another sad anecdote: A bank in Finland suspended an account for a text in free-form message field of a bank transfer. The message was for a vet visit of a dog named Ira. When you say "Ira's payment" in Finnish, you add suffix -n, so the text field said Iran, which of course must indicate money transfer to a sanctioned country. It is comforting to know that the bank system catches all the illegal activity that the sa…

IRA is also a possibly shady acronym in some parts of the world.

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#179

Post by robocat »

Anchor wrote: post #138
0xpgm wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And some of these companies pride themselves as AI technology pioneers. Yet it seems their automated systems in this case are simply doing keyword matching. Mind-boggling!

Another sad anecdote: A bank in Finland suspended an account for a text in free-form message field of a bank transfer. The message was for a vet visit of a dog named Ira. When you say "Ira's payment" in Finnish, you add suffix -n, so the text field said Iran, which of course must indicate money transfer to a sanctioned country. It is comforting to know that the bank system catches all the illegal activity that the sa…

A friend's daughter got her email blocked the other day because she mentioned "Niger" in the message (talking about her school assignment).

Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas

#180

Post by dcanelhas »

sideshowb wrote: post #144
noirscape wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be somewhat fair to Meta; the "violation of unclear rules part" part is an appropriate response for spam detection . Usually any entity dealing with the web don't want to reveal how their spam detector works because doing so could in turn reveal information on how to circumvent it[0]. The issue is that Meta thinks they're large enough that they can apply this to every single one of their business customers and all…

Or they could, you know, spend some of their billions on employing humans to review these cases.

Would that generate even more billions in revenue, though?
Post reply on HN