Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is."

While allowing scam and porn ads on there that harm millions of people

No one should be the World Wide Web’s self appointed censor!

If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content,

You misunderstand... Feminist literature is the prohibited content. I'm not making a joke here. That's literally their policy!

"stop saying things we dont like" is what they mean

*brainwashing machine

CP as well.

Meanwhile they promote misogynistic vitriol that enables violence against women.

Fuck Meta. They're a terrorist organization and should be treated as much.

There is no over-reaction to actual censorship.

I’m sick of men telling me that I’m overreacting about these issues.

The ones telling you that you're over reacting are the ones who have a vested interest in your downfall

I don’t take that shit from no man. They can think whatever the fuck that want of me. I don’t need anyone let alone a fucking little bitch of a man acting as if he’s better than me.

And what is really gross is that they will place it at the level of social/corporate discourse. Continuing the facade that they are a "publisher" and not town square.

Meaning there will be no legal option to prevent groups like meta/FB and Twitter from throttling down real social issues. While turning the volume up on "state approved rebellion".

The United States and its most powerful corporations now fully and openly embrace fascism. Revolution is our only hope now, there is no one coming to save us but ourselves. Join your local socialist group and start training now. Don’t wait for the mass arrests to begin.

It is always that deep.

Yepppp, where meta goes rightwards other social media sites follow. And many of them are run by misogynists

1. Promote
2. Viable
3. Alternatives

the problem is people are so addicted to it, at least in my province. They don't want to hear about any alternative that would require the smallest effort. In the 80's, Dead Kennedys made an album called "Give me convenience or give me death". I took me decades to realize how accurate this title was for depicting the world we live in.

You don't have to tell this to me. You have to tell this to my entire extended elderly family.

And also Instagram and whatever other Zuck products are in your life. I'm happy they wasted so many billions of dollars setting of virtual Mii meetings lmao...

We’ve known this for 20 years, but because money they’re allowed to spread literal child porn

God forbid you talk about social topics on SOCIAL media…

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.

It creates the illusion of socializing while using the Fox News formula of alternating between titillation and fear. That and youtube idiots and podcast bros have ruined so many people's lives.

FB was always pushing russian back propaganda since 2016, alot of boomers and gen-xers use it, and millneals

This..

I'm online and I don't really play as many games but I watch reviews and stuff about the gaming community every now and again (I just bought a Steam Frame 🤦 though ...). The number of these damned gaming commentators complaining about "woke in games" is exhausting. So you have to see what these guys consider "social topics" and it'll unsurprisingly show you their (right leaning) world view. By the way, these commentators just forgive death threats online and say things like "it's all apart of the Internet" but hey ... The new Wolverine game isn't any good because of woke and DEI though.

Stay home, do nothing is a strike.

It's just an excuse to promote Fuckerberg's incel worldview

They've made it addicting. Its constant dopamine.

I think most people don't actually care about anything for some reason. Instagram could execute a small child randomly on the planet every time you "like" a post, and people would still use it, so long as it doesn't directly affect them

Because it was designed to hook kids and they knew it. It's what some of the recent lawsuits are about.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/meta-instagram-facebook-lawsuit-settlement-safety-feature/107080166

I went on there to figure out how to advertise my business and turns out that’s where fucking local culture went! So if you’re not on there you don’t know what the fuck is going on.

but the META android wants to know everything about humanity.

@Cocodapuf @eicker easier said than done if you own a quest 3 headset

hardcore child porn, to be exact.

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?

That was last week

feminism is a contradiction to toxic manosphere thats why, and meta needs a conservative voting base to stay alive.

Nazi? Fine. Hate? No problem. Scams? That's free speech.

Women? Oh it's time to do something!

Also don't forget about !feminism@beehaw.org and !feminism@lemmy.world

I know you specifically meant an entire platform similar to meta but, thought these were worth mentioning

Upvote to recognize the obvious satire

Downvote if you didn't and take this literally

There place is right beside anyone else, anyone is just another humon. And most of them already know it, it mostly the other side that does not want to accept this it seems?

Sadly some restaurants use Facebook for their menu or specials...

This the actual solution. Just stop using their services.

This is fine regardless of section 230, no law generally prohibits any removal of information you're hosting. In USA that rule only means that talking some actions of removal doesn't incur liability for that which you failed to remove.

Use Signal instead.

"Quit shoving your woke agenda down our throats!

And let me get back to deep-throating all the fascist right-wing propaganda you have!!!!!"

I know I did

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.

It's where Grandma is.

what did you read to learn this? i wanna read it too

They literally said that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.

So how the fuck is it reductive?

Look at that. Someone claiming that people are overreacting to this clear censorship of feminism.

What a surprise.

I don't think the headline is reductive at all, in fact, you could take it a step further and say Facefuck has banned all social activism in advertising.

It seems like that in the Guardian's article, but there is more to it. Meta told them why and how to go around the censorship. Meta only fixed it after media attention. I trust that you are resourceful enough to translate what is below

The article of La Vanguardia

Sin embargo, Evelyn Arévalo, directora con Pep Tosar del teatro Raval, declara: “Desde la dirección del teatro, queremos matizar la respuesta que ha proporcionado Meta: El anuncio no se restauró rápidamente: Se colgó el día 16 de septiembre, el día 17 nos dimos cuenta de que se había rechazado, preguntamos al asistente de la página por los motivos de dicho rechazo y los reafirmó. Solicitamos revisión del anuncio y se informó de que darían respuesta a los dos días”.

A raíz de esta respuesta, el teatro Raval decidió autocensurarse y publicar el anuncio, un teaser, cambiando las oes de Woolf por asteriscos: W**lf, como se aprecia en la imagen, “y eliminando las referencias al feminismo de la publicación”.

Arévalo se muestra convencida de que “no fue hasta que los medios de comunicación informaron del caso, que restablecieron, por arte de magia, el anuncio”. La Vanguardia fue quien dio la noticia y otros medios también la publicaron, tanto en España como, por ejemplo, The Guardian en el Reino Unido.

How? They were quite clear and not subtle

Get out of here with your pro-oil propaganda.

A Virginia Woolf play

it's very easy to find out by reading the article you decided to comment on

They have ai for that.

Oh man, your comments history. Are you a parasitic NEET troll, or are you just insufferable?

awesome, censorship on lemmy, and they have the gall to get mad at the censorship on other platforms. 😂

First and second wave are decent.

Third wave is where things went off the rails.

Haha I think so too but Lemmy won't agree. :)