Electronic Frontier Foundation has a brief story
about Facebook’s reversing itself and accepting ads that, while on the face
supporting legalization of marijuana use (perhaps beyond medical purposes),
merely said (directly) that citizens should register to vote and support drug
law reform. The ad did not actually promote or facilitate marijuana use.
Facebook (as does many services) does have a policy prohibiting ads for tobacco
or similar products themselves. But it
was a little surprising to see cognitive confusion on the actual substance of
an ad wrongfully prohibited.
The EFF story is here.
Analysts are saying not to make too much of the end
of the “lock-up” on Facebook Thursday. Most of the problems with its share price
have to do with fundamental questions on how to monetize mobile use of the
site. That’s ironic, because mobile use
(rather than content-centric use on conventional PC’s) really is closer to the
meaning of “social networking” anyway. The Yahoo! link for the story byChris
Ciaccia of “The Street” is here.
No, I do not have any Facebook shares, yet. Don't know if I'm even eligible.
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