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Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:25PM (#21382410)
How are Facebook ads a public forum? They send an ad to the viewer of a page. They can, and do, control viewer-by-viewer who sees which ads. That's like sending an ad to a mailbox.

But I wish I could reject direct mail campaigns...

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Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by justizin on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:56PM (#21382654)
many of them are promoted posts, with discussion, and which are re-shared by individuals to their network.
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Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:17PM (#21382818)
OK, but that's like you got something interesting in the mail (or even email), and forwarded it to someone. That's still not a public forum.
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