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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: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:41AM (28 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:41AM (#637067) Journal

    Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org

    (grin - careful what you wish for)

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Snotnose on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:27PM (20 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:27PM (#637073)

    Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org

    Good News! For breakfast I made a shrimp and guacamole omelette, with 2 slices of bacon and homemade hash browns. I made the guac over the weekend, I think it turned out really good. Shrimp is always good.

    On the bummer front I just found out Aunt Donna died 2 weeks ago :( Was trying to track down uncle Bill's phone number (lost when mom died) so I could let him know dad was dying when google showed me Donna's obit. sad.

    That funny lump under my armpit turned out to be benign, the doc took it out Monday and just called with the news. Looks like I'm gonna be around for a while!

    Trump sux, amirite?

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:41PM (7 children)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:41PM (#637077) Homepage Journal

      I got it examined at the urgent care clinic but the doctor said only a biopsy could determine whether or not it was cancer.

      I stayed up way past my bedtime tonight so I could do my taxes. The most time-consuming part was adding the last few months of transactions to GnuCash, as well as correcting errors in my books.

      I'm hungry. The only store that's open right now is 7-Eleven, but that's OK I like their Big Bites. The 7-11 near my home doesn't carry Spicy Bites - I like those better.

      I plan to get a cat soon but before I can I must go to my storage locker to retrieve my cat carrier. I could either use the bus pass I've got and take three busses, or I could pay extra for an express day pass, which would enable me to take only two.

      If you believe in the Space Spaghetti Monster, don't mod this post, copy it to a post of your own.

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      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:25PM (6 children)

        by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:25PM (#637093) Journal

        I think i'm an alcoholic (1 monthish sober), my son is moderately autistic but doing pretty good... will be getting out of high school as soon as we can afford it because HIGH SCHOOL SUCKS for people like him... in public school they know what they are doing. High school? They know squat.), and my wife has uterine cancer and will have surgery in 2 weeks (two weeks and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting). My daughter is moving into her own apartment soon and is doing well for herself, spank me very much!

        My neighbour hasn't shoveled her driveway for a couple weeks now: could be dead, but meh...she's a renter, so....

        I learned some new things lately from a girl my mom told me to avoid (i think that's how it goes?) and i still can learn new things!

        Hrmmmm..... and Canada won another gold! :)

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:48PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:48PM (#637102)
          • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:03PM (4 children)

            by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:03PM (#637106) Journal
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            • (Score: 4, Touché) by Hyperturtle on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:37PM (3 children)

              by Hyperturtle (2824) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:37PM (#637115)

              i like turtles

              • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:35PM (2 children)

                by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:35PM (#637220)

                True to your username...

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @09:42PM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @09:42PM (#637276)

                  But what if it is interpreted as TOO MUCH turtle?

                  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday February 14 2018, @03:28AM

                    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @03:28AM (#637431) Journal

                    Turtle turtle!

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Apparition on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:43PM

      by Apparition (6835) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:43PM (#637078) Journal

      We're going to need the "TMI" mod...

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:48PM (2 children)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:48PM (#637079)

      This sounds a lot like ham radio 75M SSB nets.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:56PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @12:56PM (#637081) Journal

      Journal, mate, your own journal is for this.
      Nothing stops you in keeping the timeline of your life events there. The only restriction: has to be in UNICODE format, the utf8 encoding is taken care automatically (I think)

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    • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:40PM (2 children)

      by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:40PM (#637146)

      Sad thing is, my first 2 paragraphs are true, there never was a lump, and the Trump Sux was clickbait.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:57PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:57PM (#637158)

        careful when you try to invert reality, those kinds of things are serious business and you shouldn't talk lightly about them. You want people to think you like trump?

        • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:17PM

          by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:17PM (#637181)

          As someone once said, instead of trying to figure out why someone hates you, figure out why you care.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:16PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:16PM (#637199)

      Here is the complaint:

      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.

      When you say "Trump sux, amirite?", you are expressing hate. This will create division. The children see him as a superhero who protects them by deporting evildoers and by keeping democrats like Anthony Weiner in prison.

      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:52PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @07:52PM (#637242)

        How much of the $505 are we about to lose by disappointing Unilever ?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @02:35PM (#637592)

        When you say "Trump sux, amirite?", you are expressing hate. This will create division. The children see him as a superhero who protects them by deporting evildoers and by keeping democrats like Anthony Weiner in prison.

        Don't know if you're trolling or not, but try sneaking into any other country in the world and see how much you are welcomed. Or overstay your visit and see how happy they are to welcome you to stay. Illegals' apologists are crazy...

        And Anthony Wiener/Weiner is a pedophile. I thought you #metoo types and "progressives" hated on that shit.

        • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:47AM

          by Bot (3902) on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:47AM (#638160) Journal

          I would be an illegal apologist myself if the narrative were true, because it's proper karma for displacing redskins.

          But the narrative about people escaping war and famine by immigration is complete nonsense as soon as one investigates a little, so I'd say WWIII has started and the weapon is the womb. (well the previous 2 wars were about creating a new society too, but more intent on destroying infrastructure).

          The controlled opposition puts this in a context of a race war, which is very handy as it's difficult to switch to a different body, but it's really a culture war, on one side existing cultures, already destroyed among the immigrants, bound to be destroyed among the so called civilization, on the other side the brave new world which will be offered as the only way to stop fights and terror.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:14PM (6 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:14PM (#637108) Journal

    Need socializing online? Use soylentnews.org

    Oh, God, what have I done? What have I DONE!?!
    I should have thought of it, Soylenters are humans (well... except bot), can't expect them to be rational!

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:17PM (2 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @08:17PM (#637253) Journal

      Now that you have started it, c0lo, tell us about the vegemite. And the dingos.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @09:44PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @09:44PM (#637278)

        Koala pics plz

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:01AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 14 2018, @04:01AM (#637446) Journal

          I have a nice koala ascii art.
          Unfortunately

          Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.

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    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:29AM (2 children)

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:29AM (#637558) Journal

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:45AM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 14 2018, @11:45AM (#637560) Journal

        Et tu, bot?

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        • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:27AM

          by Bot (3902) on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:27AM (#638026) Journal

          👍

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