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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 26 2016, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the businesses-choosing-their-customers dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @03:59PM (#433261)

    Even Goebbels was right a couple times in his life, nitwit.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:32PM (#433280)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @07:15PM (#433358)

      But what about good fashion and being snappy dressers?

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:33PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:33PM (#433281) Homepage

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:06PM (#433292)

      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

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:17PM (#433296) Homepage

        What satire?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:43PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:43PM (#433304)

          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

            by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 26 2016, @05:57PM (#433313) Homepage

            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

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:52PM (#433339)

              Shut up you white skinned nigger.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:43PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:43PM (#433335) Journal

      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

      by charon (5660) on Sunday November 27 2016, @01:43AM (#433493) Journal
      Ethanol-fueled follows Poe's Law [wikipedia.org] again; film at eleven.