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Spotlight on Facebook Groups Affects Microsoft

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hate-to-be-in-the-marketing-managers-shoes dept.

NewsCloud writes "After Slashdot reported Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech, the company removed its F**k Islam group for a day (it's back up now). According to the New York Times, 'Facebook declined to comment on Friday on the subject of hate speech or on what steps had been taken.' It turns out that Microsoft is the digital advertising provider for Facebook serving up ads for companies such as NetFlix, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and Coca Cola. But for now, the Microsoft-served ads for all Facebook group home pages (even those complying with Facebook's Terms of Use) appear to have been taken off the site. For its part, NetFlix told me to address any concerns about its own ad placement along obscene speech with Facebook. T-Mobile said they would look into it."

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  1. Re:ok but by Tackhead · · Score: 0, Troll
    > This problem -- with user-generated content not being properly vetted by marketing departments before being juxaposed with ads -- is common to the "Web 2.0". Nobody has a "solution" to it, and the true solution is that advertisers need to buck up and learn that they can't micromanage every single waking moments of our day.

    I propose the following solution: Fuck Web 2.0, fuck marketing departments, and fuck advertisers.

    > Not to be some kind of bizarre technoutopian, but actually people think and act in ways that may be unpleasant to their fellows. The world doesn't actually look like one of those 1980s "Buy the World a Coke" ads.

    Fuck the world. I just wanted a Pepsi. (And they wouldn't give it to me...)

  2. Basic problem... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is that the "fuck Islam" group pretty much has it right.

    Is Islam peaceful?

    "Thanks to Hitler, of blessed memory, who on behalf of the Palestinians, revenged in advance, against the most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint against him for his revenge on them was not enough." - Al-Akhbar, government sponsored newspaper of Egypt, April 18, 2001

    http://www.zawaj.com/editorials/harry_potter.html
    "Once they have learned to love what Allah loves and hate what Allah hates..."

    http://www.obmonline.net/index.php?cmd=3&path=Articles/Aqeedah/Effects%20of%20Imaan.htm&hd_elm=2&depth=1

    "So the first sign and proof that you love and hate for the sake of Allah is that you obey Him and follow the Messenger Muhammad (SAW).

    The second sign is to declare hatred and animosity to those who do not believe in Him, and those who desire to rule by other than what Allah has revealed."

    Sura 8, 9, and 48 of the Koran, summed briefly: "Kill the infidels."
    8:67. It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land.

    Sahih Muslim 19/4294: "Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them. Then invite them to migrate from their lands to the land of Muhajirs and inform them that, if they do so, they shall have all the privileges and obligations of the Muhajirs. If they refuse to migrate, tell them that they will have the status of Bedouin Muslims and will be subjected to the Commands of Allah like other Muslims, but they will not get any share from the spoils of war or Fai' except when they actually fight with the Muslims (against the disbelievers). If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them.... "

    Summation:
    Step 1: Demand they convert.
    Step 2: Demand they become slaves.
    Step 3: Orf wiv their 'eads.

    Islam: RELIGION OF HATE.

    P.S. Yeah, I'm posting as an AC. I don't want they coming to try to kill me like they did with Salman Rushdie, or Theo van Gogh, or Adrian Marriott, or the poor korean guy, or the poor indonesian schoolgirls, or the Jews the Muslims who signed up to join the SS killed, or so on...

  3. Re:Well that's too bad. by rucs_hack · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its interesting to me that there are adverts on Facebook. I've never seen any, didn't even know they existed there.

    Its amazing how adblock changes the web experience. I used an undergrad lab computer last week, and was taken aback by the amount of adverts on sites I use all the time.