Posted on 09/16/2022 4:10:24 AM PDT by lowbridge
In early September, director Joshua Newton was working on the rollout of his Holocaust movie Beautiful Blue Eyes when he received a troubling email. Peter Ruppert, a digital media buyer for the film’s distributor, MovieFarm, informed Newton that Facebook had banned the filmmakers from promoting or advertising the recently finished 2009 thriller, which marks Roy Scheider’s final performance, on its platforms. The social media giant said the film’s title, which refers to the eye color of a child who perished at the hands of the Nazis and invokes a key scene in the movie, violated its policy against content that “includes direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s race,” among other personal attributes.
Newton, the son of two Holocaust survivors who based his film on his late father’s experiences, was disgusted.
“This is the action of haters – and there are sadly many in our society – who seek to damage the film in order to trivialize the Holocaust,”
-snip
The filmmakers appealed, and Facebook upheld the ban in a brief message to Ruppert obtained by Rolling Stone. “After a requested review of your Facebook account, we confirmed it didn’t comply with our Advertising Policies or other standards,” the note read. “You can no longer advertise using Facebook Products. This is our final decision.” Advertising for the film, including trailers, was now “permanently restricted.”
Beautiful Blue Eyes centers on an NYPD cop (Scheider) who has spent decades haunted by the murder of his family during World War II. When he believes he has found the Nazi responsible for their deaths, he enlists his estranged son to help him exact revenge. It’s unclear how the film’s title violated Facebook’s race policy given that people of any race can have blue eyes.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Change the title to “Honky-Eyed Supremacist” and all issues will disappear.
"Black Like Me" -> "Of No Definable Ethnic Background Like Me"
"The Color Purple" -> "Fifty Shades of Gray"
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" -> "The Morally Ambiguous and the Physically Non-Descript"
Regards,
Regards,
amazing - even crazier considering the source.
in the article is a comment about FB previously blocking the ads for “Plot Against The President” - great movie
But it’s okay to have La Raza and BLM FB pages/groups to name a few.🙄
The Communist gangster propagandists have been allowed to push more and more and more to destroy everything that makes humans human. They themselves were once human, but no more. They traded in their humanity for raw power. They are predator ghouls, outdoing the most frightening sci-fi story.
I want to see a remake of Shindler’s list with an all black cast.
FaceBook, by Zuckerberg’s own words, is doing exactly what the FBI wants and has told them to do. Dont wanna get in trouble with the FBI, do you?
The movie? Or the actual events involving the list?
Racist? Could I post this on facebook> The Boy with the Sapphire Eyes
The movie makers should have cleared the movie with all intelligence agencies to make sure it was approved....
:-(
Cutting off perspective advertisers. What a brilliant business model.
No mystery, really. Liberals hate Jews. Liberals dominate Facebook workforce.
Amusingly, Zuckerberg has blue eyes, I believe. Not sure.
Blue eyes crying in the rain.
Brown eyed girl
Etc.
Those eyes follow you around the room.
Welcome to the HERC2 club kid. :)
Insanity is spreading.
I wonder if Mr. Newton votes democrat?
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