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Facebook rejects ad of two men kissing to spread awareness on world-aids day
- aetherspawn 7y agoAn equal number of people would be offended by this being injected onto their morning feed, probably more, than those that are offended by its rejection. Facebook is an algorithm after all.
- sojmq 7y agoWell I definitely don't want to see something like this in my feed, so thanks.
- Brian_K_White 7y agoI don't want to see you in this thread. Somehow, I bet you would say this is my problem, and that you have a right to exist, including in public where I might see you and your homophobic or perhaps merely insufferably prudish opinions.
- billynomates 7y agoImagine the outcry if they rejected a picture of a straight interracial couple
- toxicFork 7y agoSome people don't want anyone kissing in their feed. Don't they remove all sexual content?
- threatofrain 7y agoSome people would consider homosexuality obscene on what could be interpreted as a family or community product.
- krapp 7y ago> Some people would consider homosexuality obscene on what could be interpreted as a family or community product. Anyone who would consider an image of a heterosexual couple kissing to be family friendly, but an image of a homosexual couple kissing to be obscene, is a bigot whose views should not be catered to.
- threatofrain 7y agoHow unfortunate that millions of Americans under your view are now bigots unworthy of tech’s attention.
- largespoon 7y agoIf only interacial marriages were recently legalized and could offend Americans' sensibilities.
- krapp 7y agoYes, it is unfortunate that so many bigots still feel entitled to their prejudice.
- gboone 7y agoMaybe you have not considered that to those who view race as sacred and who also view sexuality as sacred, your assertion of bigotry completely ignores the consistency by which they apply their beliefs. To be against racism is to promote racial differences as purposeful and good. Even if those people of different races don't agree, or are themselves racist. To be against the promotion of homosexuality is likewise not to be against homosexuals (even if they disagree) but is to promote the differences between sexes as purposeful and good and to promote heterosexual marriage. We can't change the race we are, but our views of our race, and race in general, are going to vary right? Same with our sex, and our view of sex. I simply wish to make the case that calling others bigots on the basis of consistent treatment of both race and sex as sacred, and not just race, while not being also a racist yourself... Reveals inconsistency.
- FisDugthop 7y agoAwful lot of "some people" argumentation in this thread.
- ashildr 7y agoWhy is this post flagged?
- gremlinsinc 7y agoFeels like Zuckerberg and co is pivoting from being politically 'left' to politically 'right' and I'm wondering if it has to do w/ data. I.e. data says if you support conservative media/causes/etc you'll get more mass appeal, and more eyes glued to facebook. Or more people who lean right-wing are on FB so make it an echo chamber for them. Supposedly he's been having a lot of closed door meetings w/ people on the right. At once it seemed he wanted to be more like gates and influence the world for good. I think all the privacy scandals have made him more jaded and ruined chances of him getting into politics like he wanted, so buckle down and make FB more profitable through political coercion and using data to get the most advertising buck. I mean they don't allow this, but Trump could run an ad saying Bernie Sanders is having an Affair with AOC and has poor family values and they'd allow it - because political ad.