Facebook is censoring marijuana.

Just last week, the social networking giant abruptly changed its policies and decided to ban images of marijuana leaves from ads, claiming pictures of the plant promote “tobacco products.”

We’re fighting back against Facebook’s censorhip with a massive campaign to call out the social networking site.

The Department of Homeland Security wants to make a “one-stop shop” for the disaster response under a .gov URL. That means shutting down the current site, and taking another look at who has access to post on the site, with government deciding control of the content and message. So why did DHS allow BP to walk off with the mailing list of everyone who signed up for information about the disaster?

Writing on his blog last fall, the NYT’s Paul Krugman remarked, “I trust Joe Romm on Climate.” I agree with Mr. Krugman: when it comes to climate change — whether you are interested in either the science or the politics — Joe Romm’s Climate Progress blog is the single best source of information on the web. He’s blunt, extremely knowledgeable and solutions-oriented, a rare combination of attributes that leave him particularly well-suited to cover the scientific and political context of climate and energy policy.

Since the start of the response to BP’s oil disaster, the company and government have solicited suggestions from the public for ideas to stop the gusher, cleanup oil, or otherwise improve the current cleanup operations. Why not set up a website with all of the submitted ideas and allow the public to evaluate proposals? The government (or BP, or whoever’s in charge today) can display the submissions and supporting information, sort by type of idea, and establish set criteria for the evaluations to be filtered, and then let the best ideas as determined go up for further review to whaetever experts the government determines.

Almost 48 hours after Rep. Ed Markey pressured BP to put on the Internet a live video feed of the gushing oil pipe, you can finally see the choppy images from the ocean floor. Of course, that’s only if you’re using Internet Explorer, or some instances of Firefox.

The problems surrounding what should be a simple task of putting live video on the Internet are really a microcosm for all the incredible fuck ups in capping the pipe gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Kudos to Markey for getting BP to consent to a live feed, but let’s leave the technology to the pros. The White House needs to take control and own this live feed of a pipe leaking millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf every day.

[Welcome Dr. Larry Rosen, and Hosts Jayan Kalathil and Melissa Bolton-Klinger] [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book.  Please take other conversations to a previous thread.  - bev] Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn In his new book, Rewired, Professor Larry Rosen tackles an intriguing subject: the [...]