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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 26 2016, @11:49PM
I'm not a person of faith, but statements like the above are why I side with Christians when it comes to this kind of thing. Every kind of group in the world has to be respected and cherished. Until it comes to Christians. Christians are always expected to put aside their faith, beliefs, values and morals out of "Respect" for anything and everything. It's total bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @12:26AM
Until it comes to Christians. Christians are always expected to put aside their faith, beliefs, values and morals out of "Respect" for anything and everything.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying any person or group that wants to act like bigots should be called out. That runs the gamut from religious groups, political groups, book clubs, knitting clutches, you name it.
But if they happen to claim "I should be allowed to hate/discriminate/whathaveyou because my religion says these people are less than I am!" then their religion is going to get some of the negative attention if in fact their religion does endorse that type of bigotry.
The "cake" people claim that their religion should allow them to hate gays because it's in the Bible, yet they would still bake cakes for people who have committed murder or theft or adultery or violated any of their sacred Commandments. There's a bunch of abominations inn the Bilbe but one and only one they feel is so beyond anything else in the Bible that that one action should get special treatment. And that is the ultimate hypocrisy.
(Score: 2) by gottabeme on Sunday November 27 2016, @10:15PM
> my religion says these people are less than I am!
This is explicitly not what the Bible says. If you're going to be bigoted toward Christians, you should at least do it accurately. After all, you don't want to convince people to join you based on lies, do you?
> The "cake" people claim that their religion should allow them to hate gays because it's in the Bible, yet they would still bake cakes for people who have committed murder or theft or adultery or violated any of their sacred Commandments.
No, that's a patently false analogy. A proper analogy would be, someone walks into a bakery owned by Christians and asks them to supply a cake for their murder party, or their burglary party, or their orgy. You have failed to distinguish between a) sinful acts and b) openly living, celebrating, and promoting an ongoing, sinful lifestyle.
So far you're 0/2, and your hatred of Christians does not appear to be based on facts or sound reasoning.