• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    Meta wants to be the global town square, but apparently Virginia Woolf and feminism are too dangerous for its ad system. Meanwhile the company keeps asking us to trust its algorithms with billions of people’s speech. If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content, maybe it shouldn’t be the internet’s self appointed censor.

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      1 month ago

      This is the problem with social media. Outrage drives clicks, so “feminism” is portrayed as a caricature of brightly died hair, “ugly” women, feeble men, and the stereotype of unemployed art students.

      It’s exactly what we were warned about in books like 1984 and animal farm. The media controls thoughts, who controls the media?

      • 1984@lemmy.today
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        Nah. It’s more that feminism started as equal rights, which everyone agrees with. But now it’s a hostile movement that doesn’t respect men and masculinity at all. Anyone can see that but they think it’s OK. Who needs masculinity anymore right? :)

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          Feminism is not single coherent ideology with a linear development. It’s a movement with numerous offshoots who disagree vehemently with each other. There are anti-trans feminists, and there are feminists that are indeed hostile towards men.

          The vast majority of feminists I’ve encountered in my actual life - not online - just want rights for women in a world in which the global majority are still denied basic autonomy.

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            I think its different in different countries too, so this topic will definently divide people. Depending on where your country is on the feminism scale, it may just have started fighting for equal rights, or it may have gone way too far in the female direction, and started attacking masculinity and pushing down men for doing ordinary masculine things like watching a woman or talking to a woman.

            Women don’t stop wanting more control over men’s behavior once they have equal rights. It becomes about controlling men’s behavior so it suits the woman. Things like thinking guys are creeps for watching a woman (unless he is attractive, then its fine). The woman decides if he is attractive and therefore if he is a creep or not.

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    1 month ago

    People realise they can just stop viewing social feeds and the quality of life either doesn’t change or sometimes improves?

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      No they don’t unfortunately. Social media and any other institution only has as much power as we give it. For some reasons people just can’t quit social media even while they actively protest it.

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    “After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.”

    Wow.

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      not that i’m a meta fan, I fucking hate that company, but this swings both ways. Imagine your local coffee shop is boosting posts about traditional marriage and pro-life themes. They get blocked as well.

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        There’s no way to get around “any mention of civil rights” though. That covers all humans.

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        They do pay “content creators” who have views on the opposite side of the political aisle and when caught paying far-right activists, they said:

        “Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.

        While PAYING to advertise a book with feminism as a theme is not OK. They’re clearly pushing an agenda.

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        I just don’t go to that coffee shop. Problem solved. They can say whatever they want. If I don’t support it I don’t go. I don’t see how the coffee shop argument hold up. And if enough people hold the same views they close.

        Meta however is too big to fail. Which gives them a free pass to pass their cancerous views onto society while knowing no matter how much the general public hates them and their shitty views they will continue to use the platform because their friends and family still use it. Enshittification. If my coffee shop enshittifies I tell them to pound sand.

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    I see incredibly violent and bigoted content all the time on Meta platforms and always report it. Rarely does anything get taken down. But feminism bad I suppose.

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    Regulating Meta which is truly accountable nowhere is like trying to find a good place to store radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years. Everyone outside the US should just ban them.

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        The viable alternative is nothing.

        Because no one gives a shit about you (general you, not specific at BitsAndBites), or about what you say. You use it cause you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like, because no one can actually maintain hundreds, if not thousands of connections like you collect on facebook, most of whom don’t even give a shit about you. its just a mutual masturbation session, only instead of jerking each others dicks off, your jerking eachother off with pointless likes.

        All social media is, is a means of generating profit from mental illness, and manufacturing mental illness for profit.

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          You use it cause ~you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like~ it’s the only place to get and share updates from your extended family

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            Holy shit send them a text ask them how they’re doing, maybe even a phone call. You don’t have to choose to give mark zuckerberg a monopoly on your family’s stories and memories.

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              All of them. At once. Facebook is where older people share updates that they don’t want to have to share with every single person in their life individually.

              I already have individualized communications.

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    As if they are going to check every ad.

    They never did and never will.

    So go ahead and order as many feminist ads as you want.