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How Close are we to Peak Social Media?

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Polarization (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:42PM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:42PM (#637257) Journal

  if they cannot reign in hate

  With the 1984 doublespeak redefinitions of common words, much like "justice" now means promotion of leftist propaganda, "hate" now means any belief not sanctified by the Democratic party policy wonks.

  Oh, you stupid, illiterate Nazi, VLM! Common words, like "reign", as in "to rule, preside over", somehow come to be redefined as "rein", a line or strap attached to a bit or other device designed to control a horse, and when used as the phrase "rein in" means to "stiffle, curb, restrict"? Is this what you are talking about, you racist anti-democratic person who rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven?

  And then, there is this: "like the SuperBowel". Never having appreciated what the Americans call "Football" (yet another redefinition!), I accept your creative respelling of this most expensive of advertisement venues!

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