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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the hit-the-hate-button dept.

According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".

If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:44PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:44PM (#637149) Homepage Journal

    Because I stayed up all. Night.

    So are telling me SN won't let me post pictures? How about videos? Surely I can post videos

    I'm on the I-5 bridge across the Columbia. They've been trying to replace it for twenty years but they can't agree on whether the yellow line should go across it

    You'll be proud of me: I didn't eat an apple fritter this morning. I likes me some apple fritters

    It's a beautiful clear day today but the mild winter is likely to lead to a drought

    I'm at the yellow line station in north Portland. I really hate waiting for the train

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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