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We need to stop treating Facebook or any digital infrastructure as culpable when it's users are the ones responsible. As far as Facebook's concerned, it's an a

• Analemma_ 8y ago
  This law is nothing new to digital advertisers. The New York Times is also forbidden by law to advertise job or housing ads that discriminate against protected classes in its classifieds page, and this has been an uncontroversial state of affairs for decades. Facebook is being asked to play by the same rules as everyone else.
• mmt 8y ago
  > What next? Hold AT&T culpable for providing internet to these advertisers? If AT&T is otherwise interacting with the content (e.g. throttling or zero-rating based on it being an ad), I don't see a problem with that. Traditionally, common carriers were protected under the premise that they didn't discriminate based on content. In this respect, I think internet carriers are putting themselves in a precarious position in not supporting net neutrality. Once a carrier shows that it can (and does) discriminate content, what makes it different from a publisher like a newspaper?
• scarface74 8y ago
  Facebook is not culpable for what it’s users post. They are just as culpable when they accept money from advertisers as any newspaper would be. Apple for instance would be sued into oblivion if it let anyone post a song for sale on iTunes without any vetting for copyrighted content.