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Related: About this forumFacebook Marks LGBTQ Advertisements as Political, Blocking Them Again
The advertisements all seemed innocuous at a glance. A ribald sendup of fairy tales hosted by a comedian in Los Angeles. A Spanish-language social group for Latino men, sponsored by a community center in Las Vegas. And a list of senior-friendly housing options distributed by a nonprofit group in Texas.
But they were all blocked by Facebook. The companys system, which uses automated and human monitors, determined that the advertisements were political, though they did not involve advocacy or any explicitly political views. The common thread between them all? LGBT themes.
David Kilmnick, the chief executive of the LGBT Network, a Long Island-based nonprofit, said he was confused about why the groups advertisements for events such as the Long Island Pride Parade, a beach concert, a pride-themed night at a New York Mets baseball game and a LGBT youth prom it puts on were blocked.
We were completely targeted simply because we were LGBT, he said, for what were advertising ads that promote our programs that help support the community and celebrate pride. Theres nothing political about that."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/03/facebook-blocked-many-gay-themed-ads-part-its-new-advertising-policy-angering-lgbt-groups/?utm_term=.cac5e528612a
Theresa Lucero, a coordinator at the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada, a Las Vegas-based nonprofit that offers services such as HIV testing and counseling, said that the group has been having particular trouble getting ads approved, for things such as a gay social group it organizes, if the advertisements are in Spanish. When it has posted the same ads in English, theyve gone through, Lucero said.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)ads seem more like community center type ads akin to senior citizen ads or the like. I don't understand the rationale that FB is using here to block them.
AzNick
(2,237 posts)Just like that it was gone. It's become a total censorhsip nightmare. I wonder if Zuckerberg is rewarding Drumpf for the Jerusalem embassy
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)It is bad enough that Facebook is seemingly targeting GLBT groups, but you don't need to compound it with anti-Semitic innuendo. There is no need to bring Zuckerberg's religion into the equation unless you have something substantial to present, otherwise it is nothing more than a left-wing version of a "Soros is behind it" bullshit attack from the right!
AzNick
(2,237 posts)LOL this is so funny.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)And if you really are Jewish, then you should know better than to make such remarks in mixed company, especially when NO ONE here knows if you are really Jewish or not!
AzNick
(2,237 posts)I have nothing to prove to you. My grandfather was tortured twice by the Nazis, the second time to an inch of his life. He then defected to Russia. My mother, my uncle her brother, my grand mother were in a camp. My grand parents received reparations payment.
But whatever.
I stand by my point of view regarding what I say.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Your remark was anti-Semitic and uncalled for.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)... somebody failed the Turing test again?
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)...I got an ad from Infowars yes, that inforwars!