Ethanol-fueled and darkfeline wrote in with an Ars Technica article on a demonstration of how promoted tweets can be easily abused:
Promoted tweets have been part of the Twitter service since 2010, and they've allowed advertisers to pick and choose who sees specific ads based on "what a user chooses to follow, how they interact with a Tweet, what they retweet, and more." But users have found how loosely those ads are monitored or filtered before they reach users' eyeballs—and how cheap, fast, and easy the system can be exploited to annoy users as opposed to "engaging" them.
"I decided to spend a few pennies on Twitter ads today," [Weev's] post started, and he asserted that the platform's pricing structures "don't seem to take into account that one might want only to generate negative reactions to ad campaigns." Though Auernheimer didn't say exactly which users/groups he chose to target in his trolling campaign, he listed examples that appeared to jive with the sample of angry responses that followed: people who are active in Democratic political campaigns or animal rights groups; women who shop for fine jewelry; followers of known feminist sites like Jezebel and Feministing.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:49AM
>this is FOSS, not fucking tumblr. When the fuck did this happen
Lol, if you're a mysoginist your code is shit, your projects are shit,
your media is shit, your contributions are shit,
everything you do is shit and it will be deleted from its host:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1310 [ibiblio.org]
http://whatwillweuse.com/fodder/terrorware/ [whatwillweuse.com]
any mention of your projects censored / removed:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?115776-Xonotic-Forked-ChaosEsqueAnthology-Sees-New-Release/page2 [phoronix.com]
"Fortunately, the article has been removed now."
"Thanks everybody for speaking up."
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JeCIgSFrBlgJ:http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page%3Dnews_item%26px%3DChaosEsqueAnthology-Rel-51%2Bchaosesque&gbv=1&tbs=qdr:w&hl=en&&ct=clnk [googleusercontent.com]
Removed story URL: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ChaosEsqueAnthology-Rel-51 [phoronix.com]
https://twitter.com/directhex/status/576766336547856385 [twitter.com]
and certainly not packaged:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770314 [debian.org]
http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/11/23/1443205 [soylentnews.org]
https://pipedot.org/story/2014-11-21/opensource-game-rejected-from-debian-for-authors-social-beliefs [pipedot.org]
No different than the "real" world in America, UK, Europe, Australia, etc.
You are a male and are on the bottom, everything and anything you might
want is banned. You don't even get to do things for free / opensource, freely.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Sir Finkus on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:56AM
[quote]No different than the "real" world in America, UK, Europe, Australia, etc.
You are a male and are on the bottom, everything and anything you might
want is banned. You don't even get to do things for free / opensource, freely.[/quote]
While I agree that "political correctness" is largely bullshit, and people getting fired for things they say on their own time is a problem, aren't you being a just little bit hyperbolic here?
On another note: a link to a similar story about abusing targeted advertisements on facebook.
http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/ [mysocialsherpa.com]
Join our Folding@Home team! [stanford.edu]
(Score: 4, Informative) by Sir Finkus on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:59AM
Damn, used [] instead of and now I look a fool. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last.
Join our Folding@Home team! [stanford.edu]
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday May 07 2015, @11:10AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Friday May 08 2015, @10:27AM
To add to your post, since Slashcode's HTML interpreter ate it: the markup symbols surrounding tags are < (Less Than) and > (Greater Than).
For writing out explanations:
*Code* *Displays As*
& &
< <
> >
If the above is horribly mis-aligned, you probably have your browser set to display monospaced text using a proportional font. :-p
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:55PM
Pfft, this ain't yo mamma's stale ass bbcode son. This is slashcode, bro.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @10:05AM
No because they got it done:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1310 [ibiblio.org]
http://whatwillweuse.com/fodder/terrorware/ [whatwillweuse.com]
If you're a sexist, your free software projects are deleted.
You're kicked out of distributions (see Ted Walther and Debian)
And cencored (see other links)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:36PM
FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @02:31PM
I thought that sexist was just a synonym for male.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday May 10 2015, @02:12AM
On that note:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/05/sjws-attack-open-source-software.html [blogspot.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.