Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Perpetual liar and privacy hating Facebook just says No.

The people behind the "Just Say Now" marijuana legalization campaign (oft-Boinged Salon contributor Glenn Greenwald is one of many political thinkers on their board) want Facebook to back off its decision to pull their ads from the social networking service...

...They report that Facebook's communications rep Adam Noyes said, when asked for Facebook's decision in writing:

It would be fine to note that you were informed by Facebook that the image in question was no long acceptable for use in Facebook ads. The image of a pot leaf is classified with all smoking products and therefore is not acceptable under our policies. Let me know if you need anything further.


That's world class bullshit, but we expect nothing less from Facebook.

Read more here.

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