Rage against X factor

As a rule of thumb I stay away from Facebook groups, it doesn’t spark my interest if some people like to ‘draw on condensated windows’ or state ‘the official rules of calling shotgun’. But when I noticed that a vast majority of my friends were joining one group, it seemed to interesting to ignore. This group is called Rage Against The Machine For Christmas No.1 http://bit.ly/8c8bIm. This is their back up Facebook group.
This is a Facebook group who are pushing for Rage Against The Machines ‘Killing in the name of’ to be Christmas number one instead of the X-Factor winner Joe McElderry. In response to this group there has been a huge amount of publicity ranging from articles in NME magazine to interviews in The Guardian. This particular interview shows Simon Cowell accusing the group as conducting a direct attack towards him, also saying it’s a cynical campaign. This publicity has put pressure on Simon Cowell and the X-Factor but also Facebook; to the extent that the Facebook group ,with over 700,000 members, was not available for several hours on the day of the x-factor final. Facebook called it a ’bug’. I am sitting on the fence with this campaign but I still think that move by Facebook seemed a bit coincidental.
Cynics argue that the campaign is pointless because Rage Against the Machines are on a record label which is owned by Sony who also employ Simon Cowell. It seems that the majority of the people who have joined this group are aware of that fact and argue that they do this for freedom to choose what is Christmas number one, and not just have another X-Factor contestant automatically get it. I see this as a battle of opinions because after all music taste is just another opinion. In this instance over 700,000 people want ‘Killing in the name of’ to be Christmas number one, we will see how many people what another X-Factor winner to be number one.