Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
by jonfw on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:47PM
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> minorities (persons of color esp) have been scapegoated in elections in ads on TV, etc.
Do you have any sources for this?
Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:35PM
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IIRC, Willie Horton.
Re:Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
by isoskeles on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:58PM
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My whole life, minorities (people who earn more money than average esp) have been scapegoated in elections...
What if you said this? What happens when Bernie Sanders run a dozen ads saying the “rich” haven’t been “paying their fair share” and what standard would allow this to be consider truthful, or will the ad need to define words like rich and fair (good luck on that 2nd one)?
And it was dealt with poorly. My whole life, minorities (persons of color esp) have been scapegoated in elections in ads on TV, etc. So, yes, political ad censorship has been dealt with by media, and the "deal" was that victims would be minorities.
In a sense, Facebook just makes it fair. Now anyone can criticize anyone, everyone gets to suffer equally. Those who don't like it should have spoken up decades earlier.
I'm posing anon for obvious reasons. My hope: Lets let Facebook win this round, so we as a society come up with decency rules that help all of us, rather than just defending protected groups.