• undrwater@lemmy.world
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    “After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.”

    Wow.

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      not that i’m a meta fan, I fucking hate that company, but this swings both ways. Imagine your local coffee shop is boosting posts about traditional marriage and pro-life themes. They get blocked as well.

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        I just don’t go to that coffee shop. Problem solved. They can say whatever they want. If I don’t support it I don’t go. I don’t see how the coffee shop argument hold up. And if enough people hold the same views they close.

        Meta however is too big to fail. Which gives them a free pass to pass their cancerous views onto society while knowing no matter how much the general public hates them and their shitty views they will continue to use the platform because their friends and family still use it. Enshittification. If my coffee shop enshittifies I tell them to pound sand.

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        There’s no way to get around “any mention of civil rights” though. That covers all humans.

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        They do pay “content creators” who have views on the opposite side of the political aisle and when caught paying far-right activists, they said:

        “Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.

        While PAYING to advertise a book with feminism as a theme is not OK. They’re clearly pushing an agenda.

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        Maybe. This was an advertisement for a book that had those themes.

        Personally, I don’t want either to be excluded.

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    I see incredibly violent and bigoted content all the time on Meta platforms and always report it. Rarely does anything get taken down. But feminism bad I suppose.

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    The fact that these morons are destroying the world with impunity, openly, and no one is even attempting to regulate it is the wildest part of this timeline. They’ve brainwashed how many countries now? And people are just watching and waiting to be picked off.

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    People realise they can just stop viewing social feeds and the quality of life either doesn’t change or sometimes improves?

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      No they don’t unfortunately. Social media and any other institution only has as much power as we give it. For some reasons people just can’t quit social media even while they actively protest it.

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    The CIA via its VC fund InQTel is the architect of today’s information landscape. All of this is very much on purpose.

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    Regulating Meta which is truly accountable nowhere is like trying to find a good place to store radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years. Everyone outside the US should just ban them.

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    Meta wants to be the global town square, but apparently Virginia Woolf and feminism are too dangerous for its ad system. Meanwhile the company keeps asking us to trust its algorithms with billions of people’s speech. If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content, maybe it shouldn’t be the internet’s self appointed censor.

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      If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content,

      You misunderstand… Feminist literature is the prohibited content. I’m not making a joke here. That’s literally their policy!