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		pjc50 on June 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook to let users turn off political adverts Indeed. We tried the "politics ban" at HN and the result was every story had a top comment explaining why it was political and you should flag it. Completely unworkable.

arethuza on June 17, 2020 [–]

I suspect that pretty much any discussion of politics is essentially political so under that ban this story probably shouldn't be discussed.

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