Message from @Arch-Fiend

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2018-02-28 02:31:58 UTC  

that David Hogg kid got twitter verified

2018-02-28 02:36:13 UTC  

bluecheck fittin'

2018-02-28 02:49:04 UTC  
2018-02-28 02:50:42 UTC  

What mate?

2018-02-28 04:00:38 UTC  

jews did wtc

2018-03-01 00:14:11 UTC  

I'm late to the party on this but I want to confirm there are more words then just "gun" that are being treated unequally by search engines and other major internet platforms.

2018-03-01 00:19:59 UTC  

I have in the past been an EiC at a now closed consumer news website that focused on Lolita fashion. Lolita fashion is a style of clothing who's name suffers from a bad case of Engrish; it is, in reality, a very hyper-prudish group with no relation to the book. However, we struggled with google ads for an extensive period of time when trying to come up with the name for our site because google wanted to almost exclusively serve us sex product and explicitly adult ads if the word "lolita" was too common or in the domain name. On tumblr the term "lolita" is also highly censored and makes it difficult for Lolitas to find content they are interested in; they have had to switch over to hashtags without that word in it. Youtube has also cracked down on Lolita youtubers, or so I've been told, who can no longer place ads on videos that are about Lolita fashion.

2018-03-01 00:20:46 UTC  

That's insane

2018-03-01 00:22:04 UTC  

Our site eventually went so in the red, along with other issues, that it had to be shut down. Part of the reason was that we had a lot of traffic, but very little ability to utilize ads.

2018-03-01 00:22:41 UTC  

Google ads may have not completely saved it, but we considered it a very mentionable contributor to what happened.

2018-03-01 00:30:43 UTC  

I think part of the problem with the term "lolita" is its unfortunate (and usually improper) association with pedophilia

2018-03-01 00:33:47 UTC  

This is true; Lolita fashion is a victim of Engrish. In Japan it does not hold that direct association. The Japanese know of the book, but they do not assume the two are connected. If the style had originated in America the community would have likely changed the name already, but the style began in Harajuku in the 1980s and then very slowly spread across the world. Almost all the brands that make the clothing are Japanese and they say Lolita.

2018-03-01 00:35:28 UTC  

Yeah. It is quite unfortunate, because Lolita fashion is actually quite conservative, and (in my opinion) it looks better than most fashions that come out of Europe these days.

2018-03-01 00:39:44 UTC  

It's also extremely feminst, in a non-contemporary sense. It's literally designed to be wish forefillment for girls and women and is not intended to be seen as attractive. It's a look that goes back to the old fashion notion of the concepts "beauty" and "sexy" being separate from each other. So to say the least; google wanting to give us ads for bondage gear was the opposite of what we wanted; it was just as bad as if they tried to give beer ads to a Mormon website.

2018-03-01 00:40:10 UTC  

Yep

2018-03-01 00:42:30 UTC  

I was not directly in charge of the ads for the site, but the feedback I got from the guy who was in charge of it was that we needed to accept limited or no ads if we were going to decline the adult-themed ones. As far as I can tell there was no way to even start a dialog with google about this; it was a take it or leave it situation. We could not explain to a living human at google why their ads would not work for us.

2018-03-01 00:43:46 UTC  

Yeah, from everything I've read/heard of Google Adsense there is no negotiation on what ads appear. They give an initial vector of what kinds of ads you'll see, and then they let the algorithm figure out what other ads to put on as it learns the sort of people that visit your site.

2018-03-01 02:13:38 UTC  

"So to say the least; google wanting to give us ads for bondage gear was the opposite of what we wanted"

i see no problems with ads for bondage gear 😏

2018-03-01 05:57:43 UTC  

That mayor should be arrested for obstruction of justice

2018-03-01 12:24:20 UTC  

UPDATE: Today Czech e-journal published 2 new articles on killed Slovakian investigative journalist - It's also possible he was killed by judicial mafia in Slovakia - he was investigating the assignment of court cases to chosen courts and to some chosen judges, where a small group of businesses made a lot of money. Most likely it has nothing to do with the Italian mafia in Slovakia.
Source : https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/zahranici/nesledujte-jen-italskou-stopu-vrazda-jana-kuciaka-prisla-odj/r~41a0f8941c8011e8a44c0cc47ab5f122/?redirected=1519892357

2018-03-01 15:20:21 UTC  

Here is the last article the murdered journalist worked on

2018-03-01 18:01:03 UTC  

^ fucking shit, how is "don't report crime" the obvious solution rather than "prevent, disincentivise crime"

2018-03-01 18:01:34 UTC  

Can we stop the world?

2018-03-01 18:01:37 UTC  

I want to get off.

2018-03-01 18:04:36 UTC  

The criminals hiring school kids is what got me, not reporting is one thing, but actively encouraging crime getting their hands on kids, jesus

2018-03-01 20:20:35 UTC  

xie xie

2018-03-02 01:36:10 UTC  

a lot of words

2018-03-02 01:37:37 UTC  

To summarize: Trump wasn't fucking lying when he said he's being tougher on Russia than Obama ever was

2018-03-02 02:10:59 UTC  

well, i mean russia is making nukes that can bypass our missle defense

2018-03-02 02:24:59 UTC  

😮

2018-03-02 03:13:40 UTC  

People are reading "Culture of Critique"