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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: 4, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 26 2016, @04:24PM
Look, all AppNexus is doing here is acknowledging that minorities are violent and can be set off by anything -- and if you've ever been around them, you know it to be true. They're like rabid dogs, one moment they're cool with you and the next they're trying to bite your face off because they thought you were looking at them the wrong way. They're pure savages. This wasn't a problem a few years ago when minorities had no internet access, but now they do.
And until we can round them all up and put them in the big house where they belong, this is a decent interim solution, though we know from history that appeasement doesn't work in the long-term without a stick behind that carrot.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday November 26 2016, @06:05PM
I of course did not RTFA, but what you say is not what I quoted, it is the opposite. Violence towards the minority vs. from the minority.
Other problem, according to that logic we should remove crucifixes not to make those Muslims feel offended by it?
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