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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38076579
A leading ad exchange has blacklisted Breitbart News, which until recently was run by one of US President-elect Donald Trump's closest advisers.
AppNexus said it would no longer allow Breitbart to sell ad space via its platform, after determining that the site had broken its code on hate speech and incitement to violence.
Breitbart responded saying it "has always and continues to condemn racism and bigotry in any form".
AppNexus has not given examples.
But a spokesman said a "human audit" of Breitbart had flagged several articles that had caused it concern because of the language they had featured.
"We use a number of third-party standards to determine what is and isn't hate speech, and if we detect a pattern of speech that could incite violence or discrimination against a minority group, we determine that to be non-compliant and we simply won't serve ads against it," AppNexus's spokesman Joshua Zeitz told the BBC.
"I'm not going to put the examples out there because I'm not going to engage in a tit-for-tat on what is compliant."
(Score: 5, Informative) by bradley13 on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:05PM
From TFA, some sample articles of concern seem to be:
The fact is, women are more easily rattled by nastiness than men. That’s a stereotype, but it’s also true — in the landmark Pew study on online harassment, women were more than twice as likely as men to say they were “very upset” by online harassment. That’s why, despite the fact that men are more likely to face abuse online, it’s mostly women you hear complaining about it
The Civil War was not fought over slavery, but in defence of states’ rights. As for secession, the very existence of the United States derived from its secession from the British Crown. Why did the South, then, not have the right to secede in turn from a Union grown intolerable to it, with Abraham Lincoln assuming the role of George III?
Twenty-seven per cent of those polled in the United Kingdom say they had sympathy with the attacks on Charlie Hebdo – the French satirical magazine that published cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammed last year, with 78 per cent supporting punishment for the publication of cartoons featuring Muhammed and 68 per cent supporting the arrest and prosecution of British people who “insult Islam.”
The first two are clearly opinion pieces. Whether you agree or disagree with their premises, they are hardly inciting violence. The article about women was written by Milo - what a surprise that it is deliberately provocative. The third article discusses facts shown by numerous studies: Lots of muslims believe that their religion gives them the right to commit violence, and they hold Sharia law above the law of the countries they live in.
All in all, none of it is "hate speech", a term which apparently means anything that progressives dislike.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:42PM
So in light of that, you pick your own examples to show that they are wrong? Seriously?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:48PM
> The third article discusses facts shown by numerous studies: Lots of muslims believe
Goebbels is grinning up at you from Hell.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:59PM
Even Goebbels was right a couple times in his life, nitwit.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:32PM
When "the nazis got some things right" is your defense, you've already lost the argument.
The one thing that the nazis very much got wrong was religious bigotry. That was pretty much the central wrongness of their entire philosophy.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @07:15PM
But what about good fashion and being snappy dressers?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:33PM
This is true. Muslims are savages, and their beliefs are incompatible with those of Westerners. Islam is the sole cause of the Dark-Ages of the Middle East, and is the cause of all the shit going on there now. America is dumb to meddle with the societies of such savages, because they are animals, and even the most uncivilized of us cannot fully grasp or understand Islamic brutality.
Not only are they brutal, but extremely inbred. They're basically rabid animals who need to be put down. This [turner.com] is the mascot, the Coachella Arab, of a school I played football against way back before Coachella hosted that overpriced corporate pseudo-grassroots music festival of pop shite. Isn't that guy an evil, mean-looking bastard? That's what Muslims are. Evil, mean-looking bastards. And we, with the help of Jesus Christ, will exterminate them from the face of the earth and send them to hell where they belong. Amen. God Bless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:06PM
Nice troll face today, I just hope the crazies understand the satire.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:17PM
What satire?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:43PM
Nice satire. The alternative is you are a complete idiot inciting violence. And idiots that incite violence should deserve no better fate than burning in hell.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:57PM
Bringing physical violence to a fight of words -- spoken like a true Muslim!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:52PM
Shut up you white skinned nigger.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:43PM
I know you're attempting to go for funny, but honestly, you ranted a little too much and blew it. Though, the faux god fearing stuff at the end was a good cap!
(Score: 1) by charon on Sunday November 27 2016, @01:43AM
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:54PM
> they hold Sharia law above the law of the countries they live in.
59% of american christians say they are christian first and american second
only 47% of american muslims say they are muslim first and american second
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/22/gw.poll/index.html [cnn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:03PM
I always suspected that the more hardcoee christian Americans would be the greatest threat to our country, I don't think they'd appreciate such irony...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:17PM
Timothy McVeigh [wikipedia.org] disagrees with you.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:28PM
Or perhaps the islamic terrorists that were polled lied..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @07:11PM
Poe's Law or witch-hunt logic?
Posting history confirms you are a witch-hunter.
So sad.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @08:52PM
Oh shit, are they gonna go forgive somebody!?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @12:46PM
>Jesus' most significant act was his self-sacrifice
>Mohammed's most significant act was personally leading a genocidal crusade against heathens