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Facebook To Stop Ads that Target, Exclude Races (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader shares a USA Today report: Facebook says it will no longer allow advertisers to exclude specific racial and ethnic groups when placing ads related to housing, credit or employment. "We are going to turn off, actually prohibit, the use of ethnic affinity marketing for ads that we identify as offering housing, employment and credit," Erin Egan, Facebook's vice president of U.S. public policy, told USA TODAY. Facebook will also require advertisers to affirm that they will not place discriminatory ads on Facebook and will offer educational materials to help advertisers understand their obligations, Egan said. The policy changes came after discussions with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Illinois) and the Congressional Black Caucus, and Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Everything about you is their business. It's how they collect their money by selling your data on, or advertising to you based on what they perceive your needs or wants to be.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
"...prohibit, the use of ethnic affinity marketing for ads that we identify as offering housing, employment and credit"
Why only those types of adverts? Why not just turn it off altogether?
The article says Facebook will "...no longer allow advertisers to exclude specific racial and ethnic groups when placing ads related to housing, credit or employment."
What about advertisers that inclusively target specific racial and ethnic groups? For example, money transfer services to Mexican-Americans?
Does this imply that such a feature was actually available up until now? Who the thought that would ever be permissible?
Wouldn't dreidels ALREADY be advertised mainly to white people?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
how do you think google and facebook make money?
nothing to see here - move along
Who needs to code it period?
for attribute in profile_attributes:
if target["attribute"]:
displayAd()
That way when your profile attributes change you don't have to re-write your ad tools.
Bagels? Really? Bagels?
My Heart Is A Flower
I've long believed that even well-meaning groups and services that are explicitly established to help only people of a particular race or ethnicity are actually keeping racism going much more than eliminating the problem, and as such should be illegal. You either provide soup/scholarships/whatever equally for everyone that needs it or no-one.
Another example: All those government forms that ask your ethnicity... yes I know its optional to reply, but that shouldn't even be a question in the first place.
What do you mean it's not that kind of race?
Jewish people ARE white. You don't see a "Jewish" option for race when filling in a document at the DMV. Most western Jews (and even Jewish people that moved back to the middle east) have much more European DNA than middle eastern DNA after their ancestors lived with (and consequently bred with) Europeans for many centuries.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Agreed .. the soundtrack to my life just died :(
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
I liked that one, and Burritos. White people NEVER eat burritos. Most white people look at a burrito and wonder what it is: is it food, is it a living animal? Why is it on a plate.
White people are going to be astonished to realize the burrito exists.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
So no more trump stuff but pro H1B's is ok?
anyone who uses facebook agrees to this. look at your eula when you sign up. doh.
nothing to see here - move along
That makes it legal and profitable. "Right" doesn't factor in.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
So the better question is what suit called the shot.
The one that acknowledged that there was an edge to be had by including these statistics in their advertising bias and somehow thought there would be no repercussions.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Now I can see ads for suckers like car title loans and payday cash advances. Thanks, Facebook.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Kyle Larson of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing is going to be pissed.
White people NEVER eat burritos.
Yet they eat Hot Pockets, which are the same thing.
Besides, "never" is a strong word. Was MTV being unrealistic when it depicted Beavis and Butt-head seeking burritos in "The Great Cornholio"?
I doubt that 1-Term Donald alone has power to end the Fair Housing Act of 1968 or the equal employment provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Though the House and Senate will be Republican, Congress can't be too reactionary or they risk losing control at the end of the second year just as easily as they gained it in 1994.
Here's one way to turn off Facebook ads on any machine where you have root. If you've been around Slashdot for a while, you probably already know which file these entries go in.
Why not? You're offering a service in exchange for something. You could always give the users the option to pay a monthly subscription fee in exchange for not being tracked. I'm sure a whole 0.0001% of users will take them up on that option too.
Wot? They are going to follow the law existing in most civilized countries already forbidding this?
And they want applause? A pat on the back?
I hope you realize I was being sarcastic.
However:
Hot Pocket is to Burritos what Velveeta is to real cheese.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Better yet, no English-speaking ads since they'd disproportionately target non-hispanics.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
To think it is a living animal (presumably a small donkey) would presumably require they have sufficient knowledge of Spanish...which would in turn likely imply they already know it is a food item. (I know, woosh.)
Everything about you is their business.
Literally
Dark Reflection
King George only had one term.
I suspect they can.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland for a period equivalent to almost fifteen U.S. President terms. Are you claiming that the U.S. Constitution will be amended to give President-elect Trump a term an order of magnitude longer than that for which it presently provides?
Congress can't be too reactionary
I suspect they can.
At this point I doubt it. House Speaker Paul Ryan is reluctant to support a lot of what Mr. Trump stands for.
Does this ruling also mean that, say, a minority-owned bank in a minority-majority neighborhood can't target members of their own minority group for mortgages?
I'm a pretty successful businessman. I didn't become a successful businessman by letting people tell me what to do. I became a successful businessman by getting things done...
Can you imagine him making a speech starting like that? I can. Can you imagine the people falling for it? They already have, so why not again?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."