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Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
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Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Em, this is a private company. I see what you mean, but this hardly points to some dystopia.
Exactly. This is a private company, and unlike a nation in which you can still have some word with your vote by becoming automatically a citizen from birth, you must buy your place as a shareholder in order to have a voice in whatever direction the company is going to.
Now imagine a private company that slowly eats every spot in which users could buy or sell product and services; what would happen if say they one day decide to limit your business in there? Indeed you can still breathe, but the western world you're pretty much dead in every other way.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Em, this is a private company. I see what you mean, but this hardly points to some dystopia.
1 in 4 people in the world has an account in this private company.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just guessing here, but if the senteces sounded like "how to use pandas to help you in work" AI could have decided that you're going to use a cute bear to lay bricks for you. Plus the "exotic animals", as someone else mentioned.
Makes me wonder what's the worst possible phrasing "Master Python and Pandas, make them work for you, attack new challanges, earn good money"
> Makes me wonder what's the worst possible phrasing
I got some very strange looks when buying one particular book back in the days when physical books were the norm. It was only after I got home that I realised a book called “Python Cookbook” gives an entirely different impression to non-programmers.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#335Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would be the alternative here? Meta bans people from selling live animals or bans them from selling programming courses?
I don't think it is stated anywhere that the ban was the result of the thing that was being advertised . > This review found inauthentic behavior or violations of our Advertising Policies or Community Guidelines There could be thousands of other things.
> There could be thousands of other things.
Sounds like speculation to me. Anything to back that up?
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
An acquaintance of mine (in Europe) had a default bank transfer message "al-qaeda terrorist fund" for years and years. That did finally raise some flags, but a visit to a bank office was enough to get the account unblocked. Being a bit stubborn, he still kept the message and just applied rot13 to it.
What's funny about this is that multiple people at this bank think that a terrorist group would just freely advertise itself this way. Like some local cell leader names his accounts "Groceries", "Home Repair", "Bombing Supplies"
No, they don't. The banks know perfectly well that this doesn't catch terrorists. But by law they are liable if a terrorist uses their services if they don't have a program to detect terrorists. A key-word match on Iran, bomb, ISIS, etc. is enough in the eyes of the regulator.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah! How dare they, referencing literature.
Referencing 1984, Brave New World and that quote about freedom of speech that Voltaire never actually said make up the holy trinity of pseudo-intellectual posturing on the internet.
“1984 was dystopian, and anything I don’t like is dystopian, therefore anything I don’t like is straight out of 1984”
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#339The 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…
I've been banned from Reddit several times for absolute b**** reasons. Most recently I was banned for report abuse. But it has an incredibly huge problem with a particular style of spam account that reposts old content on certain subreddits. I was reporting those and also commenting on threads as to why I was reporting them so that others could see it. Without any discussion, comment, or initial warning to say " hey stop using this report mechanism ", my year old account was banned outright.
So I created a new account, but I assume found out that despite posting pretty benign comments they were uncontroversial, that account got shadow banned. I'm not sure what mechanism i triggered.
So now I created another new account which seems to be functional for the moment. I think the lesson I should be taking away from this is that almost all of Reddit is absolute garbage, and I should only be going there for niche hobbies and professional support forums. Let the rest of that God forsaken site burn.
Anyway, I thought this was relevant because of the fact they didn't inform me of my sin before banning me.
Re: Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
#340The 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
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