I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I teach Python.

Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by bell-cot on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:45AM (#37940606)

> I saw a sign last year for forestry service work happening locally to me. Apparently they're only going to provide safety announcements on Facebook.

There probably are (and should be) laws or regulations forbidding that, especially because "safety".

OTOH, from the PoV of the lower-level Forestry Service people who decided to do that - I'd guess they're stuck in a miserably understaffed and low-budget bit of a pretty dysfunctional government, and doing traditional safety announcements would cost them 100X the time and headaches of "just put it on Facebook".

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Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by soco on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:47AM (#37941036)

You are most probably right, it's just the effect is the same unwanted de-facto monopoly on communications... so what's then there to do???

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Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t... by bell-cot on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:46AM (#37941549)

From "forestry service", I'll guess they're under state or federal authority, so "just be a squeaky wheel in local politics" is not an option.

Sadly, this is something that needs reliable, local news coverage. Doesn't much matter if that's a "for profit" newspaper magically transported from the Good Old Days of local journalism...or ongoing, ~thankless work in the trenches by a person or few with the skills to set up and run some flavor of local news web site (which could be very niche - say, forestry service stuff, parks & rec news, road closures & construction, etc.).

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