Facebook forced to drop "feature" that let advertisers block black people, old people and women

What the situation also speaks to is that Facebook’s tool wasn’t very thoughtfully designed in the first place. Bad actors will always latch onto any poorly thought-out tool they can get their hands on (3D-printed weapons are going to be a bonanza in that regard).

It’s the difference between between someone who comes here for good-faith discourse and someone who comes here because they’re under the mistaken impression they’re still trying to impress the judges and “win” at the regional high school debate club semi-finals (see, e.g., Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, and just about any capital-L Libertarian politician or pundit).

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