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In line with this: [1] Senator Warren gets her anti-Facebook ads blocked, too. It seems like Facebook just feels threatened by everything right now, and that t

In line with this: [1] Senator Warren gets her anti-Facebook ads blocked, too. It seems like Facebook just feels threatened by everything right now, and that they recognize that they're dependent on people being on their platform to stay alive. I would like your thoughts on this: What has to happen to get everyone to migrate to a new platform, or is that even possible? https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/blocked-ads-proving-her-point-warren-says-facebook-shouldnt-have-power-decide-what https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/12/blocked-ads-pro...

sleepysysadmin 8y ago
The thing is, Warren's antifacebook ads are now back to being played. The right-wing folks on the otherhand stay banned.
- Legogris 8y ago
  If by "right-wing" you mean xenophobic/fear-inducing wrt nationality/ethnicity/culture then yeah. Or do you have examples of actual right-wing folks being banned?
  - NavyNuke 8y ago
    People who want their country to stay their country (in terms of ethnicity and culture) are still worthy of discussion...it is a valid political position...you can't just say "they don't count, please provide somebody else we can discuss that fit my narrow definition of right-wing"
    - Legogris 8y ago
      What you are talking about is tangential to do with the left- right spectrum, though (unless I am misinformed of course, who are you talking about got banned for what? I meant it as an honest question, not a rhetoric one) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%8%93right_political_spectrum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%8%93right_political_...
  - OpenBSD-supreme 8y ago
    When China does it to Tibet, it's genocide. When Western governments do it to their domestic populations, it's diversity? Asia is for the Asians, Africa is for the Africans, but the West for everybody? I'd love to see your kind go to South Africa or Saudi Arabia and declare there's not enough diversity. Diversity of thought, not of race, is the strength!
  - sleepysysadmin 8y ago
    I got banned from twitter after I started a new open source honeypot project. I'm more of a systems/network cyber security guy. I wanted to learn python and git better. So I wanted to get more into the development side. Which hey, I've since then started multiple projects in Python. Python is amazing. I posted on twitter 'learn to code' and I got banned. Which was crazy, it was entirely a positive message; not aimed at anyone, the only people I follow are people who give talks at hackerconferences. I then researched that there some super out of touch journalists who were attacking right-wingers and then end up unemployed. So there was some people tweeting learn to code at these unemployed journalists. The project I just got working last night was a python project that pulls weather data from weather canada and archives. https://pastebin.com/ajgGJkc7 https://pastebin.com/ajgGJkc7 Weather predictions are pretty inaccurate until its more like a day away.
heydenberk 8y ago
I don't like Facebook, either for its personal impacts on my mental well-being or its broader societal impacts. That being said, they have a pretty reasonable policy against mentioning Facebook in ads generally, because they had lots of ads that attempted to seem like official Facebook content ("Facebook releases new game!"), and they allowed the ads subsequently upon appeal
- _jal 8y ago
  ... Which these ads pretty clearly weren't attempting. I can understand the first line review flagging them via rigid application of "the rules". What I have trouble understanding is how they apparently don't have a mechanism for handling "high risk" placements, or if they do, it missed ads from a presidential candidate known to be critical of them, exactly the sort of placement such a mechanism, you know, is for.

sleepysysadmin 8y ago

The thing is, Warren's antifacebook ads are now back to being played. The right-wing folks on the otherhand stay banned.

Legogris 8y ago
If by "right-wing" you mean xenophobic/fear-inducing wrt nationality/ethnicity/culture then yeah. Or do you have examples of actual right-wing folks being banned?
- NavyNuke 8y ago
  People who want their country to stay their country (in terms of ethnicity and culture) are still worthy of discussion...it is a valid political position...you can't just say "they don't count, please provide somebody else we can discuss that fit my narrow definition of right-wing"
  - Legogris 8y ago
    What you are talking about is tangential to do with the left- right spectrum, though (unless I am misinformed of course, who are you talking about got banned for what? I meant it as an honest question, not a rhetoric one) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%8%93right_political_spectrum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%8%93right_political_...
- OpenBSD-supreme 8y ago
  When China does it to Tibet, it's genocide. When Western governments do it to their domestic populations, it's diversity? Asia is for the Asians, Africa is for the Africans, but the West for everybody? I'd love to see your kind go to South Africa or Saudi Arabia and declare there's not enough diversity. Diversity of thought, not of race, is the strength!
- sleepysysadmin 8y ago
  I got banned from twitter after I started a new open source honeypot project. I'm more of a systems/network cyber security guy. I wanted to learn python and git better. So I wanted to get more into the development side. Which hey, I've since then started multiple projects in Python. Python is amazing. I posted on twitter 'learn to code' and I got banned. Which was crazy, it was entirely a positive message; not aimed at anyone, the only people I follow are people who give talks at hackerconferences. I then researched that there some super out of touch journalists who were attacking right-wingers and then end up unemployed. So there was some people tweeting learn to code at these unemployed journalists. The project I just got working last night was a python project that pulls weather data from weather canada and archives. https://pastebin.com/ajgGJkc7 https://pastebin.com/ajgGJkc7 Weather predictions are pretty inaccurate until its more like a day away.

heydenberk 8y ago

I don't like Facebook, either for its personal impacts on my mental well-being or its broader societal impacts. That being said, they have a pretty reasonable policy against mentioning Facebook in ads generally, because they had lots of ads that attempted to seem like official Facebook content ("Facebook releases new game!"), and they allowed the ads subsequently upon appeal

_jal 8y ago
... Which these ads pretty clearly weren't attempting. I can understand the first line review flagging them via rigid application of "the rules". What I have trouble understanding is how they apparently don't have a mechanism for handling "high risk" placements, or if they do, it missed ads from a presidential candidate known to be critical of them, exactly the sort of placement such a mechanism, you know, is for.