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1. colingauvin · 1790002878 · focus · HN ↗

   We don't have to put up with this. We simply choose to. But our laws could be whatever we want them to be.

   1. tygon · 1790003021 · focus · HN ↗

      Unfortunately, "we" is often those with the monetary means to make their voice heard.

      1. ericmay · 1790004578 · focus · HN ↗

         Well you can also just stop using these products. I don't have or use Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, Reddit (since they removed old.reddit.com unless you have an account), TikTok, Snap, or anything else.

         Folks want Facebook or whatever to be regulated into some perfect idea they have in their heads of how it should work and how it should be regulated. Sorry, many people have many views on that, and you're never going to be happy with an outcome. Even this article - Facebook is complying with EU rules/regulations and now you're not happy that your voice isn't heard through your preferred form of political activism. If Facebook allows this content, they break EU laws, or they have to allow some content you disagree with and now you're mad.

         I don't know why people, right, left, or sideways keep putting up with this stuff.

         1. dgellow · 1790005359 · focus · HN ↗

            That has absolutely nothing to do with the EU regulation that requires to label political ads and restricts targeting technics

            1. ericmay · 1790005600 · focus · HN ↗

               Yes it does. You're using the product and seeing the ad. You and others are mad that the product is complying with the regulation in a way you don't prefer. Stop using the product, and no ad is there to be seen and none of this matters.

               1. dgellow · 1790005729 · focus · HN ↗

                  I don’t use meta’s products. The issue has absolutely nothing to do about an ad ban. There is no ban of political advertising in the EU.

                  1. ericmay · 1790005765 · focus · HN ↗

                     Ban/regulation, whatever. It's in the article and comments. Whatever you want to call that.

                     1. dgellow · 1790005993 · focus · HN ↗

                        > When the newly reopened Teatre Raval, which seats 193 spectators, asked Meta, the parent company of the two social media sites, why its publicity had been blocked, it was told “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out.

                        That’s Meta response. There is no mention of any regulation in that article.

                        1. emmelaich · 1790009148 · focus · HN ↗

                           That's a problem. That the Guardian doesn't mention the regulation and doesn't give us the wording of the advertisement.

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