Saturday, February 14, 2009



Anti-Stimulus petition offensive?

We read:
"Facebook, one of the Internet's top social networking sites, has kicked out a conservative group's Web site --"NoStimulus.com" -- from its paid advertising space. NoStimulus.com, which is promoting a petition to stop President Obama's economic stimulus bill, is sponsored by the nonprofit conservative group Americans for Prosperity.

But Facebook, which confirmed that it took "NoStimulus.com" down, told CNSNews.com that it did so because of user complaints: "At Facebook, we strive to create a trusted environment for our users and advertisers," Facebook spokeswoman Erin Zietler said in an e-mail. "We encourage users to report any advertisements they find offensive or misleading, and we offer the ability for them to provide immediate feedback on our ads. We have a team dedicated to investigating ads and user complaints.

Source

Facebook ducked and weaved about why they banned the ad but soon unbanned it when their actions got a lot of publicity. Full story here

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Facebook, ...confirmed that it took "NoStimulus.com" down, told CNSNews.com that it did so because of user complaints..."

So if I complain that there are Muslims conversing on Facebook, and that their discussions offend me, will they ban them from Facebook? Nope. Likely, I'll be banned because I am a complaining Christian.

Anonymous said...

"At Facebook, we strive to create a trusted environment for our users and advertisers,"

No, they've created a mob-rule environment which will keep out anything the masses deem to be the "offensive".

Anonymous said...

The mistake here was questioning the porkulous plan of the annointed one. You cannot question the new messiah and get away with it.

Anonymous said...

I have often complained about the homosexual ads I keep seeing on Facebook, as well as the misleading ads about getting $13,000 from Obama's plan (which hasn't even been passed yet), and yet I haven't seen them removed, in fact, I seem to see them more often since I said they offend me.

Anonymous said...

I'm offended by the offended, so I guess I find myself offensive!

Anonymous said...

Be prepared for more leftist-inspired censorship like this. As we all know, or should know, the left will not tolerate anything they disagree with, or anything they don't want the masses to know. Of course, they call that tolerance.

And for those fools out there who still believe this is a free country, pay attention!

Anonymous said...

Take a look at the current version of the porkulus bill:

Rep. Tom Price sat down with the 1,073-page porkulus conference report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A68eWFAbClA

Anonymous said...

No, they've created a mob-rule environment which will keep out anything the masses deem to be the "offensive".

Not the masses, sir, but the vocal few. The masses, in general, are a sober, complacent lot, and getting them fired up about anything generally requires a lot of effort.

However, getting the Zealots fired up about even minor things is much easier - and if only 100 Obamanauts complain to Facebook, it looks like a tidal wave compared to the normal level of feedback they get.

We are living in the age of the Tyranny of the Vocal Minority!

Anonymous said...

We are turning into a socialist state. Now with Pelosi ... um ... I mean Obama in charge, it is only going to get worse.

-Ferndale Fanny

Anonymous said...

Don't forget that criticism of the bill is criticism of The One, Brother Obama the 1st, and therefore racist hate speech!

Anonymous said...

i took my self out of face book, they need to rename themselves obamakissass book.

Anonymous said...

HILLARY: I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, we are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!


Hillary I agree. Some even say that dissent is the highest form of patriotism!

Anonymous said...

And she was screaming like a wild banshee when she made that statement. You can bet your life you won't be hearing her say it again!

Anonymous said...

ghoward79, you are on to something. The liberals politicians screamed that their patriotism should not be questioned when the things they were saying publicly were undermining thing our troops were trying to accomplish. Now if conservatives complain about the mother of all pork bills, they are somehow unpatriotic.