Facebook Revokes Our Admin Rights to Willie Nelson For A Nobel Campaign

Official Endorsement from WillieNelson.com of
Nobel Peace Prize for Willie Nelson for Farm Aid | Facebook

Today, our administrative rights on the Facebook page Nobel Peace Prize for Willie Nelson for Farm Aid were terminated.

The page still remains active and continues to operate normally, now with over 10,000 supporters. But as the page founder and creator we can no longer post updates to the page ourselves.

The reason for the termination was "due to a violation of the Pages Terms of Use." After reviewing the Terms, we do not see any obvious reason for our rights termination.

Some of the possible violations include "authorized representative of the subject of the Page." But, as you can see above, on Willie Nelson's official Facebook page itself includes an endorsement from WillieNelson.com of the
Nobel campaign.

In addition, a Facebook search shows that there are dozens of active campaigns for various entities for a Nobel Prize.

So if this is OK with Willie and there are dozens of similar FB campaigns, why were our rights terminated? Furthermore, if the page itself has some type of Terms of Use violation, why is it still available? Our other FB pages Thrasher's Wheat and Gigs For The Gulf continue to operate normally.

Naturally, there is no recourse or appeals process with Facebook.

So if anybody out there has any suggestions, please drop a comment below or email us:
thrasher@thrasherswheat.org

ps - as you can tell, we are pretty serious about this effort. If you think this is a joke, please review Willie Nelson's accomplishments on the left sidebar of the page.

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