Facebook bans ads for Roy Scheider's last film because ...

In Beautiful Blue Eyes, Scheider plays a cop and Holocaust survivor who travels to Nuremberg to find the Nazi officer who killed his family.

Director Joshua Newton told Rolling Stone this week that he received an email that his long in production film would be restricted from advertising on Facebook. According to the director, the film’s title violates Facebook policy because it includes “direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s race.” …

Newton, the son of two Holocaust survivors, said that Facebook’s decision trivializes the Holocaust and creates a massive advertising stumbling block for his movie, which opened in over 400 theaters in the U.S. on September 9.

“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,” he said. “Surely, Mark Zuckerberg did not intend this to happen.”

Unfortunately, Facebook stood by the ban even after an appeal, according to an email reviewed by Rolling Stone.