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Verizon Joins Growing Facebook Advertiser Boycott [Updated]

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 27 2020, @05:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the biggest-loser-competition dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/facebook-faces-advertiser-backlash-over-its-handling-of-racism-hate-speech/

"Amid this global movement to end anti-Blackness, we credit these companies for answering our call swiftly and taking a clear stand for what's right so we can hold Facebook accountable for its racist policies," said Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, which is one of the groups organizing the boycott.

Almost 100 firms have joined the boycott so far, Robinson said, adding: "Facebook has a decision to make: adopt a civil rights infrastructure or continue to see key advertisers dropping from its platform."

[...] Most recently, the tension between Facebook and the content its users share has come to a head due to messages posted by President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign in the past month, amid nationwide protests in support of Black communities and against police violence. Twitter in late May took action against a Trump tweet by appending a warning that it glorified violence against protesters, in contravention of the site's rules. Facebook, however, took no action against the same content, and the company took heat from both civil rights advocates and employees over that choice.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Saturday June 27 2020, @10:12PM (6 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday June 27 2020, @10:12PM (#1013419) Journal

    You pretend that America in 2000 or 2010 or now is the same as it was in 1950. It's simply not true -- those on your side seem to have no trouble with flat out lies.. Even in the 80s and 90s we knew not to say the N word, whether to someones face or not. Was society perfect? Of course not, but neither was it "burn everything down, dox and destroy randomly" bad.

    It's getting bad now -- collateral damage caused with impunity by the white woke: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ [theatlantic.com]

    What happened to Emmanuel Cafferty is an especially egregious example. At the end of a long shift mapping underground utility lines, he was on his way home, his left hand casually hanging out the window of the white pickup truck issued to him by the San Diego Gas & Electric company. When he came to a halt at a traffic light, another driver flipped him off.

    Then ... the other driver began to act even more strangely. He flashed what looked to Cafferty like an “okay” hand gesture and started cussing him out. When the light turned green, Cafferty drove off, hoping to put an end to the disconcerting encounter.

    But when Cafferty reached another red light, the man, now holding a cellphone camera, was there again. “Do it! Do it!” he shouted. Unsure what to do, Cafferty copied the gesture the other driver kept making. The man appeared to take a video, or perhaps a photo.

    Two hours later, Cafferty got a call from his supervisor, who told him that somebody had seen Cafferty making a white-supremacist hand gesture, and had posted photographic evidence on Twitter. (Likely unbeknownst to most Americans, the alt-right has appropriated a version of the “okay” symbol for their own purposes because it looks like the initials for “white power”; this is the symbol the man accused Cafferty of making when his hand was dangling out of his truck.) Dozens of people were now calling the company to demand Cafferty’s dismissal.

    By the end of the call, Cafferty had been suspended without pay. By the end of the day, his colleagues had come by his house to pick up the company truck. By the following Monday, he was out of a job.

    ...

    When Cafferty was wrongly accused of being a white supremacist, he fought hard to keep his job. He said he explained to the people carrying out the investigation—all of them were white—that he had no earthly idea some racists had tried to appropriate the “okay” sign for their sinister purposes. He told them he simply wasn’t interested in politics; as far as he remembered, he had not voted in a single election. Eventually, he told me, “I got so desperate, I was showing them the color of my skin. I was saying, ‘Look at me. Look at the color of my skin.’”

    It was all to no avail. SDG&E, Cafferty told me, never presented him with any evidence that he held racist beliefs or knew about the meaning of his gesture. Yet he was terminated.

    The loss of his job has left Cafferty shaken. A few days ago, he spoke with a mental-health counselor for the first time in his life. “A man can learn from making a mistake,” he told me. “But what am I supposed to learn from this? It’s like I was struck by lightning.”

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:04AM (4 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:04AM (#1013470) Journal

    Gee, it's almost like the entire system is so badly broken under the weight of its own impacted feces that it's starting to fail catastrophically. Imagine that. Who do we both know who'd been warning all and sundry on here about "cascading failures" for years now? Hmm...

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:15AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:15AM (#1013475)

      Poor hemo! Must be so sad, after all those years of thinking you were a reasonable liberal, to find out you are actually a conservative racist scumsucking lime lizard. I feel your pain.

      (Oh, bit of advice, to not throw your white supremacist gang signs while in uniform or driving a company rig, m'kay?)

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 28 2020, @06:07PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday June 28 2020, @06:07PM (#1013754) Journal

        Hemocyanin's gone off the deep end. He's dropped permanently into Karen mode.

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @02:15AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @02:15AM (#1013523)

      We do need to give credit where it is due. This was all predicted by our resident expert on self-inflicted cascading failure, Azuma.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 28 2020, @06:08PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday June 28 2020, @06:08PM (#1013755) Journal

        Have to admit, after studying so many examples of it on this site, it's hard for me not to be the resident expert. The really sad thing is I've tried to warn these people and they just accelerated their own failure, of anything.

        (PS: nice try [no, not really])

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @02:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @02:02AM (#1013516)

    Likely unbeknownst to most Americans, the alt-right has appropriated a version of the “okay” symbol for their own purposes because it looks like the initials for “white power”

    Ah 4chan. One of the most successful trolls ever performed.

    OP
    Guys what if we make the OK sign a white power symbol because the left is dumb enough to believe anything(attached image of Trump making the sign)

    Anon
    Fake and gay, sage

    Anon
    kek lets do it (picture of random democrat making the symbol)

    Thousands of images of random people making the OK symbol being pushed on twitter as white supremacist later, and its paying large dividends in lol's. TLDR liberals TDS is so bad they believe anything as long as it fits their narrative.