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Facebook & Google change ad policy: No more on "fake news" sites

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brycejones said:
I don't know, maybe the fake copies of mainstream news sits that ran made up stories this election? Do you really believe google and facebook have an obligation to allow those sites to access their ad networks?
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I don't think facebook or google have any obligation to allow anything on their ad network they don't want. It's completely up to them. However, given how closely tied facebook and google were to the illary campaign and the DNC, it's not hard to see what their intent is. Again, private companies so they can do as they want, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

Please point to where in these proposals access to any sites are being blocked. I would be pissed if someone decided certain websites couldn't be visited but that is not even remotely what is occurring here so calm down.
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By removing their revenue stream you are effectively killing off many of the sites. So if your cable company just slowed certain sites to a crawl while others work normally you'd be fine with it, because they're not being blocked right? The bottom line is the same -- some corporation deciding for you what you should or should not consume. I don't need any corp to do that for me, I can apply my own judgement as to what is fake and what isn't.
 
PokerGuy said:
I don't think facebook or google have any obligation to allow anything on their ad network they don't want. It's completely up to them. However, given how closely tied facebook and google were to the illary campaign and the DNC, it's not hard to see what their intent is. Again, private companies so they can do as they want, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.



By removing their revenue stream you are effectively killing off many of the sites. So if your cable company just slowed certain sites to a crawl while others work normally you'd be fine with it, because they're not being blocked right? The bottom line is the same -- some corporation deciding for you what you should or should not consume. I don't need any corp to do that for me, I can apply my own judgement as to what is fake and what isn't.
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clearly you aren't everyone. If people think Hillary is a pedophile because of some news site they read then we have a problem.
 
PokerGuy said:
So CNN, NBC, msnbc and the like?
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Exactly my point as to why the alt right tolerates these fake sites. Its like when the muslim brotherhood was speaking after the egypt thing and breitbart put fake subtitles in. No cnn msnbc or nbc would do that. So as much as you want to think msn is the same as your alt right spots its just not true.
 
SP33Demon said:
Exactly. Enjoy your neoliberal censorship, lefties. You've earned it.

Google should be including CNN, NYTimes, Washpo, Huffpo, Reuters, NPR, Politico, TheHill and all of the other bought-out media.
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Yes. The only media that American should allow is Breitbart. Nothing but the goodest propaganda for Americans. Jail the rest of them.
 
JSt0rm said:
Exactly my point as to why the alt right tolerates these fake sites. Its like when the muslim brotherhood was speaking after the egypt thing and breitbart put fake subtitles in. No cnn msnbc or nbc would do that. So as much as you want to think msn is the same as your alt right spots its just not true.
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Yeah, there's no way the main media like CNN, NBC etc would edit videos to cut out important pieces or otherwise manipulate things to present a particular narrative right? Oh, wait.....

I think there are a lot of fringe sites on the right that present a lot of BS info (infowars, wnd etc), but the "main stream" outlets are just not as far removed from those kinds of shenanigans as the left wants to believe. They are doing the same kind of stuff, just in more polished ways. They are still not trustworthy.
 
I may be jumping the gun a bit, but the course this may likely run is scrubbing fake news, to possibly scrubbing actual news, or steering social opinion based on news scrubbing.

State run media, or "highly regulated" media which google and facebook are offering, is probably a net positive.

There will be a few people that will want to pull back the wool from over their eyes, but they will be easily shouted down or belittled as tinfoil hatters. The rest of the people, will actually benefit greatly by believing in a story that while may not necessarily be true, will be pleasant. So the social engineering aspect of it will turn out to be a huge positive for the country.

In the end, the truth doesn't matter, only the experience or perception. Just ask yourself, if people are happier, why does it matter?
 
A limerick on watching the news

Be careful of sources you choose

For many are fake

With claims that they make

Like, "Hillary Clinton can't lose"
 
PokerGuy said:
Yeah, there's no way the main media like CNN, NBC etc would edit videos to cut out important pieces or otherwise manipulate things to present a particular narrative right? Oh, wait.....

I think there are a lot of fringe sites on the right that present a lot of BS info (infowars, wnd etc), but the "main stream" outlets are just not as far removed from those kinds of shenanigans as the left wants to believe. They are doing the same kind of stuff, just in more polished ways. They are still not trustworthy.
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Funny how journalists, educators, people who have ideas and write books are all in a conspiracy against you lot.
 
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