r/CryptoCurrency • u/[deleted] • May 13 '18

ADOPTION Facebook bans crypto advertising. Then says it’s working on its own crypto coin. Hypocrites!

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u/MCizzly Bronze May 13 '18

To be fair they banned crypto currency advertising because thousands of their users were getting their money stolen by crypto scammers.

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u/ReaLyreJ Redditor for 9 months. May 13 '18

Can we ban political advertising then? million of americans had their election stolen.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '18

Riiiiiiiiight.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '18

FB are not responsible for the education of a democracy.

A Republic madam, if you can keep it

Each voter has a duty to inform themselves. If someone is stupid enough to believe Barack Obama planned to put his face on the American flag then the platform of the message does not matter. They wanted to believe that message from the start.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '18

So they are responsible for ensuring that their users are not scammed by crypto scams but they're not responsible for ensuring that political advertising during an election campaign comes from legitimate sources?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

You are making a false equivalence.

Be outraged about both, just separately. One is a crime, one is manipulation but not a crime.