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Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target... by t-writescode on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:32PM (#26964808)
While possibly true, we need to attack it from that angle. If you look at a person and go "you are evil!!" you win no one. If you go to someone and say "I'm seeing some behavior in the system you designed. Was this intended? It's harming people, can we fix it?" you recognize them as human and don't assume harmful intent. Then, the both of you can work to solve the problem. If you go at it the other way, you're attacking _them_ and they'll defend by arguing that it's an emergent behavior of the algorithm and there's no evil intended.
Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target... by cool_dude85 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:52PM (#26964942)
Do you give those same backpats, kind words and smooches to Philip Morris and the other tobacco companies who spent decades advertising to kids and teens? Or just the company who you may find yourself applying for a job with?
Re:Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads target... by t-writescode on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:00PM (#26965010)
You're asking the wrong and a dishonest question.

I would give the same back pats to a newspaper company, when advertising tobacco at all was legal, if they let some advertisements slip through and get put on pages closer to articles meant for young people than they thought, or if they let some research papers that was co-funded by a tobacco company through to their write-ups.

Facebook is not the company making the ads, they're the ones approving the ads. There is a _meaningful_ difference.