OT Facebook WILL ban hate speech in its ads and put warning labels on 'harmful' posts by public figures

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    Zuckerberg caves and says Facebook WILL ban hate speech in its ads and put warning labels on 'harmful' posts by public figures after nearly 100 advertisers boycotted the tech giant
    • Mark Zuckerberg announced new policies on 'harmful' and 'hateful' content
    • Facebook will label 'harmful' posts from politicians if they are 'newsworthy'
    • Company will also ban ads that blame certain groups for social problems
    • Comes after massive pressure from ad boycott campaign against Facebook
    • Honda is the latest company to pull ads from Facebook in America
    • Unilever said Friday it would halt ads on Facebook and Twitter for rest of the year
    • Company owns popular brands such as Dove Soap, Lipton tea and Klondike bars
    • Unilever subsidiary Ben & Jerry's announced its own Facebook boycott this week
    • Unilever has an annual advertising budget of almost $8 billion
    • Shares in Facebook fell about 7 percent Friday amid the uproar
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ompany-pull-advertising-Facebook-Twitter.html
     
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    facebook should just go away as all it has turned into is a cesspool of nastiness. The world would be better off without social media crap.
     
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    This should help limit Cup's rants.
     
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    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    They should’ve done this in 2016. Crazy it took them this long to do it but money finally talked
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    A step in the right direction.
     
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    Except for the fact I very seldom ever use facebook, but don't let the facts convince you otherwise. :breakdance::breakdance::breakdance:
     
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    Uh huh.
     
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    Not every post requires a response. Especially when you are trying to just troll. I do find it funny when I offer a serious response to what's trending, you are usually nowhere to be found. Did you see that beautiful response by your boy when given that homerun pitch about his agenda for second term? He says he played baseball and couldn't even get a foul tip as he whiffed and tripped in the box. Wharton education at it's finest. :biglaugh:
     
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    Down a slippery slope?
     
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    My wife and I have never been on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I don't think so and I certainly hope not.
     
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    Hmm. Interesting.
     
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    Allow Me to present a scenario where it isn't good.

    The objective is to rid society of racism right? But currently with allowing them a platform to be vocal, they are simultaneously calling themselves out for the world to be known and thus try to fix. Take away their microphone and they are hidden, swept under the rug and forgotten about, until you find some nazi army growing and taking over Idaho and moving on to the rest of the country.

    But to me, that's not the scariest thing. Its muting certain voices because you disagree with their point of view. NO matter how vial a persons point of view is, they have the right to have it. You take that away form them and who is to stop FB from taking other things away as well?

    I agree racism and hate speech should be irradiating, but trying to silence them on social media will have the opposite effect.
     
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    I've said it before, it depends on what you use it for. Our family is HUGE and all over the country. It's been an amazing tool for us to all stay connected and with our families grow up. I love facebook. I don't ever see any political ads or anything on my page.
     
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    And this is a GOOD thing? I love photography.....Instagram is amazing. I follow photographers from all over the world.
     
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    I'm going to disagree and say the objective is to limit disinformation and hate, not just racism which I say falls in the category of hate.
     
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