Holy hell.
Mar. 24th, 2010 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerFacebook has shut down the group "People Against Racebending: Protest of the Cast of The Last Airbender Movie," apparently on the grounds that its campaigning against the whitewashing of the movie constitutes being "hateful, threatening, or obscene [... or that it] attack[s] an individual or group, or advertise[s] a product or service."
I've already got a lot of reasons for not liking Facebook. Now I have a new one. And while I don't know for sure that the people behind the movie (Shyamalan or the production company or whoever) pushed Facebook to do this, it's certainly the first and most likely possibility that springs to mind. Because that group's been around for months, with over six thousand members. Something had to bring it to Facebook's attention and insist it was a problem. And that something was almost certainly a someone -- a someone with a vested interest in shutting down protest.
This? Is not. cool. For all the reasons that Hal Duncan outlines at that first link, and more besides. If anybody hears word of useful things to do in response, please let me know.
I've already got a lot of reasons for not liking Facebook. Now I have a new one. And while I don't know for sure that the people behind the movie (Shyamalan or the production company or whoever) pushed Facebook to do this, it's certainly the first and most likely possibility that springs to mind. Because that group's been around for months, with over six thousand members. Something had to bring it to Facebook's attention and insist it was a problem. And that something was almost certainly a someone -- a someone with a vested interest in shutting down protest.
This? Is not. cool. For all the reasons that Hal Duncan outlines at that first link, and more besides. If anybody hears word of useful things to do in response, please let me know.
