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We’re pleased to announce the brand-new online store from Just Say Now, our new effort with Students for Sensible Drug Policy to reform marijuana laws. Featured in our store are hemp t-shirts, hemp tote bags, stickers, pins, t-shirts – just about everything you need to show your support for legalizing marijuana and support our organizing to pass marijuana ballot initiatives in November.
Get your Just Say Now gear at our new store!
Of course, Facebook isn’t happy. After the social network banned our ads last month for showing a marijuana leaf, we decided to play by their rules and not show leafs in our ads. So we submitted ads to Facebook for our Just Say now store, but blurred out the pot leafs so you couldn’t see the obviously offensive plant leaf.
Not good enough, said Facebook. Even though we complied with Facebook’s censorship of pot leafs, all of our ads were rejected. And the rejection came with some blatantly false statements, and a harsh warning.
The content advertised by this ad is restricted per section 5 of Facebook’s Advertising Guidelines. We reserve the right to determine what advertising we accept, and will not allow the creation of any further Facebook Ads of this type. Ads for this product, service or site should not be resubmitted.
Facebook is making yet another political decision to ban Just Say Now from advertising our campaign for marijuana legalization on the social networking site.
Please check out our new Just Say Now store. All proceeds from our store go to support our efforts to pass marijuana initiatives in 2010. You’ll spread the word about our campaign, and support our organizing at the same time. It’s a win-win for legalizing marijuana – even if Facebook won’t let us show you our store.
Here’s a smattering of the products available in our store….
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Wear our Just Say Now hemp t-shirt – one of the softest shirts you’ll ever touch! |
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Our slick black t-shirt will make you one of the coolest people on your block. |
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Discreetly show your support for legalizing marijuana with our 1″ pins |
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Put a Just Say Now sticker on your car, laptop, or notepad. |
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Carry our hemp totebag around town – a useful item that lets you show your pride for legalizing marijuana. |
Check out the brand new Just Say Now store and stick it to Facebook’s censorship.
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Banned by Facebook is getting so it has far more cachet than “Banned in Boston” could ever have had
Per section 5 of their guidelines?
Would that include their ‘right’ as a private business to discriminate against us because of their religion? I get that a lot.
Right on. Oughtta add it to all ad copy – “Banned by Facebook”
Way to go. I love that there are so many hemp items for sale. I was part of the project, and it’s really difficult to get hemp clothing that’s made in America. We didn’t stop looking and found one of the only manufacturers in the country (maybe even the ONLY manufacturer in the country) that makes hemp shirts. Of course, the other stuff is great, too.
At what point does someone suggest Prop 19 supporters should boycott facebook?
Personally, I’m not on it because I’ve always thought it was an asinine institution. Now I know it is.
FaceBooked!!
Just hope it slips through their censoring fingers!!
Maybe Facebook has received some pressure, from, say, someone from law enforcement at a high level.
Remember, all these cops who have arrested pot users have quite an emotional investment in the continuation of a law that justifies these arrests. That’s, IMO, the heart of the matter when it comes to the opposition of legalizing marijuana from law enforcement figures. Notice how stilted their arguments are in opposition.
Like most billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is a celebrity. And like most celebrities, whether they are billionaires or not, being a liar and a cheat is an asset, not a liability. So even if the new movie about the birth of Facebook wrongly portrays Zuckerberg as someone who lied and cheated his way to the top, both he and those who made this movie are gonna be even richer and even bigger celebrities for portraying him in such a manner. That’s how Hollywood works, and since Zuckerberg is now very much a part of Hollywood, I have no doubt that he’ll make Hollywood work to his advantage.
Let me also say that I would have a much greater appreciation for Mark Zuckerberg and his struggle to become a successful entrepreneur had he started from the very bottom. He was already pretty close to the top by living in an elite dorm on the elite campus of Harvard. So his struggle to get to the top would have been far more difficult had he instead lived in a run-down trailer park, while attending a dirt-poor community college. Plus such a story would make a far better rags-to-riches movie, and a very heartwarming one at that. But this will never happen as long as movies about the rich getting richer remain in vogue, and the ones about the poor getting rich remain out of vogue.
The Hemp shirts are WONDERFUL, Chris. Thanks for looking so hard for them!
They are without question the softest t-shirts I’ve ever touched. I recommend them very highly.
Shared on my FB profile.
Well, I support the campaign, but I have to say it, what goes around comes around. I’ve seen commentors here encounter rejection by mods making blatantly false statements and issuing harsh warnings. So please, don’t be so shocked and indignant when another web site tells you to take your beloved political opinions somewhere else. FDL does it to others every day!
Facebook is an douchebag operation anyway. Why would the campaign want to be associated with a privacy destroying site run by some kinda cult wacko?
I do like the shirts. Especially the black.
I does make me think about and ask – exactly how much money is FB raking in right now on political campaign ads? Are they siding with who is paying the most – kind of like how are government runs?