Comments on: Democracy (Sort of) Comes to Facebook

By: Say What? AT&T Lauded for Protecting Privacy – GigaOM

Say What? AT&T Lauded for Protecting Privacy – GigaOM — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:20:14 +0000

[...] even asked its users to comment on the policy before it went into effect. You know, kind of like Facebook did. It also has videos and cut the privacy policy down by 29,000 [...]

By: Why You Should Pay Attention to the National Broadband Plan

Why You Should Pay Attention to the National Broadband Plan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:00:55 +0000

[...] open, participatory, public process.” I hope it is, but traditionally our citizens have been quicker to complain to the providers of web-based services than to the agency that regulates the pipes over which such services are delivered. For those of [...]

By: Facebook Decides To Be A Commune « The Silicon Angle

Facebook Decides To Be A Commune « The Silicon Angle — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:30:05 +0000

[...] a 44 page document or 5.5 groovy and easily read pages – it still is the legal face of the company. Democracy is cool when it’s appropriately applied to such things as – [...]

By: NavyWings

NavyWings — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:51:54 +0000

Facebook is taking up the position of “also ran” very well. They are far from the leader in any serious aspect of the social media arena. They hardly listen to users unless virtually beaten up in the media. They’ve blocked any ability for a user to sync the very info their friends have made public to them to their own address book of mobile service.

Facebook better wake up very soon if they ever plan on being known as anything more than a “kiddie app.” Right now they can’t be taken seriously in the business realm if they block business functionality thet their users have been demanding for quite some time. ust look at the grass roots petitions started on Facebook. Users aren’t too happy.

Plaxo, LinkedIn and yes, even Twitter will be considered mature business social media outlets far before Facebook will ever be. The flap over something as trivial as ToS and the resultant length of time for Mark Zuckerberg to even address it is evident of what you get when kids build pseudobusinesses.

By: Facebook needs common sense, not democracy | Game Blog

Facebook needs common sense, not democracy | Game Blog — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:52:37 +0000

[...] bloggers likened Facebook’s move to ‘democracy‘ while others were more [...]

By: The day that Web 2.0 swallowed the sugar cubes

The day that Web 2.0 swallowed the sugar cubes — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:15:28 +0000

[...] a 44 page document or 5.5 groovy and easily read pages – it still is the legal face of the company. Democracy is cool when it’s appropriately applied to such things as – [...]

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:08:55 +0000

You’re right … who’s going to care … http://tinyurl.com/amfb4u

By: Sach

Sach — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:07:49 +0000

Your’re right … Who Cares…

By: Facebook Decides To Be A Commune « SiliconAngle

Facebook Decides To Be A Commune « SiliconAngle — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:43:25 +0000

[...] a 44 page document or 5.5 groovy and easily read pages – it still is the legal face of the company. Democracy is cool when it’s appropriately applied to such things as – [...]

By: jon lemmon

jon lemmon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:05:28 +0000

Everything in their new policy’s look fine and dandy until you get to the section in their “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities” stating:

“2.3 …you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and create derivative works of (“use”) any content you post on or in connection with Facebook. This license ends when you delete your content or your account.”

It’s so ambiguous. Imagine you upload a photo, and Facebook automatically distributes the photo to business partners. Then you take your photo off Facebook. Facebook will no longer have the right to distribute that photo, but legally, I’m guessing that the companies they’ve distributed your photo to still have the right to use it however they want.

Essentially they have a lot of room to exploit loopholes to make this statement invalid:

“This license ends when you delete your content or your account.”