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Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by ruined on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:30AM (#44683553)
the first sentence of the article describes the conditions
Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by duxup on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:40AM (#44683670)
I feel like there's a lot of room inside those conditions for questions. Perhaps other people see these decisions as far more obvious? I do not.

"That's political" is already a common phrase often used to dismiss what people don't agree with.

Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by JKCalhoun on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:58AM (#44683919)
We're just talking about paid ads, not what you discuss with your cousin.
Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by duxup on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:22AM (#44684170)
That example is to show how folks can decide something is "political" even if it's just something they don't like. That can apply to anyone, including people deciding if an advertisement is political or not.
Re:Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instag... by bigbadfeline on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:30AM (#44684282)
Indirect propaganda schemes of your duck kind aren't effective. Some will be caught by the rule, some won't. So what? The rule still makes the media environment a lot cleaner.

Can you clean every last spec of dust from your driveway/sidewalk? Well, you don't have to, cleaning the big shit and mud is good enough.