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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?
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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.

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