Wastebook Once Again Wastes Itself
They are now scared of a common sensical political campaign about medical marijuana : Gavin Dunaway, Adotas : “Listen, you dirty hippies: Facebook doesn’t wanna run your pro-legalization display ads. It ain’t down with your THC consumption or your tie-dye or your free love or your patchouli stink. It’s a family social network that only runs family-friendly advertising — like beer and liquor ads, products the family can enjoy together (especially when forced to gather for holidays).” Chris Good at The Atlantic : Facebook may have been started by and for college kids, but it’s no lefty, hippie operation. JustSayNow.com, a marijuana legalization organization launched last month by liberal blogger/activist Jane Hamsher, had been running ads on Facebook for a week and a half, but Facebook evidently won’t run them anymore, on the grounds that pot leaves are inappropriate Ryan Singal, Wired : “No one disputes that Facebook has the legal right to ban the ad, but Hamsher argues that it jus...