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Image Gets Company Banned From FB (4)


09-18-2013 12:57 AM #1 blackkramer (Member)
Image Gets Company Banned From FB

Just came across this news article, think these guys used her picture on purpose or had no idea?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...858376?cmp=rss

Facebook has banned a company from advertising on its website after an image of Rehtaeh Parsons was used to advertise a dating website.


09-18-2013 02:28 AM #2 zeno (Administrator)

Ouch, that's the risk people take when scraping images I suppose. Maybe they Googled 'teens in Canada'. In any case the domain 'ionechat.com' is clearly some random affiliates domain. They don't even have index viewing disabled... lol.

You'd be pretty pissed if you were the backend advertiser that got banned though.


09-18-2013 02:42 AM #3 keepitsimple (Member)

click through on their lp takes me to xdating - running a 17 yr old's image to an adult site via facebook, very smart!


09-18-2013 03:01 AM #4 blackkramer (Member)

I imagine the dude running that site is in a pretty big scare right now. Rehtaeh Parsons is pretty big in the news up in Canada, not sure about the rest of the world though.


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