Facebook Slaps Free Speech
In a stunning move, Facebook just turned down an ad I submitted because it used the photo you see here to the left of President Obama. I’ve run many ads with his photo and as a matter of political free speech it is essential that citizens be able to use the image of their president.
Facebook is a private company and of course has the right to turn down whatever ads they want but I thought you all would be interested to see their reasoning in their own words. Here’s what they emailed to me when I asked why the ad had not been approved:
"Hi,
The image used in this ad is prohibited. We do not allow ads with images of Obama and will not allow the creation of any further Facebook Ads using images of him. We appreciate your cooperation with this policy.
Thanks for your understanding"
Sorry, but I DON’T understand. They always allowed images of Obama to be used in the past. Why would they suddenly decide to no longer allow his image? Is it too incendiary!? Does it just infuriate too many people!? I doubt it! It must be something else. Hmm… I wonder what it could be!?
Hopefully the 2Facedbook FAD will die soon like MySpace did and something a little more fair and logical will take it’s place.
Yeah, whatever happened to MySpace Lee!? WAKE UP FACEBOOK, it’ll happen to you too if you keep treating people so arrogantly.