I hate it when decisions and actions are partial and biased. When you would allow one thing and pay no attention to another, when you block one thing and let the other run rampant. Today the social network showed the world that it operates at its own will by removing the entire campaign and impressions of Just Say Now.
The group has over 6,000 members on the fan page, generated over 38 million impressions in a short between August 7 to August 16. The reason? The campaign was about pot legalization in California and had the image of a pot leaf. The image of the leaf is associated directly to smoking and drugs and after a week of being there on Facebook was removed owing to it violating the social network’s policies.
Wow, why it did take a week to realize that? I know the social network has policies against tobacco products, but if the Pot leaf was thought to be against their TOS, they shouldn’t have let it appear at the first place. Anyways, many a students are condemning this step from Facebook stating that they thought the place was for freely discussing issues, etc. Well make a change, that’s the very early definition of Facebook when it wasn’t dominant and needed to win users. Not anymore, I mean so biased is the social network that it would block anything, anytime if it feels like, but you can’t block Mark Zuckerberg for sure.
ST. JOHN’S, Nfld — Supporters of marijuana may finally have an excuse to smoke weed every day. A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that smoking pot can make the brain grow.
See the full article here:http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2005-3/issue9/ne-mj.html
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