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Google Allowed Advertisers to Target People Searching Racist Phrases

• dang 9y ago
  Rewriting titles to editorialize is against the HN guidelines and will lose you story submission privileges if you do it repeatedly, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Submitted title was "Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords. Be Evil")
  • tuyguntn 9y ago
    ok, thanks for reminder, will definitely try to avoid such things in the future posts
    • dang 9y ago
      Appreciated!
• soared 9y ago
  After reading the article the only question I have is, "So what?"
  • hellbanner 9y ago
    Can we agree to not post buzz feed articles? Google has a complex graph(?) database between words and phrases based on what people search for. Some of these words and phrases will happen to be ______ (insert any adjective, including racist) according to some point of view.
• Nexxxeh 9y ago
  I search for racist phrases. Earlier I was fact checking my response to The Daily Mail ironically blaming web giants like Google for terrorism and extremism in the UK. I searched "Hurrah for the blackshirts", and that's extremely mild compared to the some of the stuff I searched for re: what Pewdiepie said, or in the wake of Charlottesville. Not everyone who searches racist phrases are racist. I think being able to target people searching for racist material is potentiality as valuable to those who oppose racism as to those who are actually racist.