Comments on: Breaking News-Dominos Pizza Responds To Facebook Holocaust Denial Ad Placement Concerns!

By: JIDF

JIDF — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:20:27 +0000

Posted this reply in the wrong place:

The article was briefly taken down, since it was a rough draft to our current campaign against 50 companies and some folks were getting confused between the two. However, it's back up now. There's nothing to hide:

http://www.thejidf.org/2009/06/20-companies-in-bu...

We simply disagree that the title is "arguably defamatory" and/or implies that advertisers "enable" Holocaust denial. The JIDF has ALWAYS put the onus of responsibility on Facebook.

By: JIDF

JIDF — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:20:27 +0000

Posted this reply in the wrong place:

http://www.thejidf.org/2009/06/20-companies-in-bu...

We simply disagree that the title is "arguably defamatory" and/or implies that advertisers "enable" Holocaust denial. The JIDF has ALWAYS put the onus of responsibility on Facebook.

By: JIDF

JIDF — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:07:25 +0000

http://www.thejidf.org/2009/06/20-companies-in-bu...

We simply disagree that the title is "arguably defamatory" and/or implies that advertisers "enable" Holocaust denial. The JIDF has ALWAYS put the onus of responsibility on Facebook.

By: Phil Lozen

Phil Lozen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:11:31 +0000

Brian I totally understand that. My comment was in response to the comment left by Cathy and not anything to do with your story.

By: bcuban

bcuban — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:11:58 +0000

Phil, my post referred to Dominos strictly in the corporate sense, I was referring to corporate advertising policies only.

By: bcuban

bcuban — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:53:00 +0000

I have no interest in moving sideways with this crap. I said what I had to say. I stand by what I wrote, I am moving on.

By: JIDF

JIDF — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:37:32 +0000

Furthermore, let's hear your argument about said "defamation." Here's ours to disprove of it:

A) Companies are in business of advertising on Facebook
B) Companies ads are side-by-side with Holocaust denial content
C) Since Facebook does not take action against those groups,
D) Companies are "in the business of Holocaust denial VIA FACEBOOK"
E) Because of that fact, the JIDF launched a campaign to inform them of the issue, so they would take the proper action

Now, please argue what can be considered "defamatory" and why.

By: JIDF

JIDF — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:31:20 +0000

Actually, we took it down, since it only served as a "rough draft" and precursor to our current campaign to inform 50 companies and thus, was fairly irrelevant. However, since you brought it up, we have put it back up to prove the point. As you can see, in the post:

20+ Companies in the Business of Holocaust Denial Via Facebook
http://www.thejidf.org/2009/06/20-companies-in-bu...

We were asking for people to help us gather contact information for our campaign in order to inform the companies of the issue and ask them to remove their ads.

The operative term is "via Facebook" – all along we have said that Facebook is 100% responsible for the problem. If advertisers were "enabling" Holocaust denial, that would assume that they knew of the problem.

Why would we initiate a campaign to inform advertisers if we assumed that they knew of the issue?

By: Cathy Brooks

Cathy Brooks — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:33:47 +0000

i, for one, have avoided their lousy pizza for years … beyond the fact that it's just bad pizza their bad politics have always left a bad taste in my mouth. just the idea of domino's makes me choke, and frankly i'd be surprised if there weren't some reason that their ads showed up there … founder backed anti-abortion causes years ago … and while he's long gone, that sort of sentiment tends to breed itself …

By: bcuban

bcuban — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:29:47 +0000

As you can see from this email, you had a very inflammatory post up entitled "20 Companies In The Business Of Holocaust Denial." An arguably defamatory statement. I don't think I mis-characterized anything. You of course have since taken the post down which pretty much rests my case.

http://www.briancuban.com/wp-content/uploads/2009...

By: JIDF

JIDF — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:38:22 +0000

By: IanG

IanG — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:21:07 +0000

Brian-

You're right about the email being a model, but I think that their overall response is a model of how large corporations should and can respond quickly to SM issues. As news travels fast, brands have to remedy negative situations promptly. Domino's did so in just the right way. Mr. Lozen's reaching out to you personally was a nice touch, and it probably didn't take too much time/effort to do so. A model indeed.

By: Ana Sitton

Ana Sitton — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:21:02 +0000

Great job Brian for finding out about this glitch.

By: Barbadel

Barbadel — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:33:19 +0000

Suddenly developed tast for Dominos Pizza and putting them on speed dial! Thanks BCuban from Twitter.