Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by mchusma on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:44PM (#23647096)

I am very nervous that the main US political outcomes of 2020 will be a reduction in free speech and expansion of executive powers.

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by hedora on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:48PM (#23647566)

In other news, the US has been downgraded to “flawed democracy”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by s_y_n_t_a_x on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:46AM (#23648811)

By The Economist, so it means nothing.

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by fsflover on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:52AM (#23650947)

What's wrong with The Economist? Whom do you trust?

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by partiallypro on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:00PM (#23647224)

That happens basically every election. We've been slipping in free speech freedoms in various indexes for 20 years now, and that has been regardless of who is in office.

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by yobi-ponti on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:06PM (#23647989)

Seems like a lot of people like that idea, what a shame

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