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

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) 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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  • (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.

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  • (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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