Hey Facebook - where's the respect?
by Gordon Finlayson Feb 21st 2009
It's fairly difficult to muster up sympathy for Facebook's management
when it comes to the current user revolt over changes to the site's
terms and conditions of use (or T&Cs as they are commonly know). After
all we've seen it all before, anyone remember lefty singer songwriter
Billy Bragg's 2006 MySpace Revolution? Putting aside the irony that it's
likely that the MySpace revolution is the only one that Billy Bragg will
ever lead, the 2006 Revolt was a blueprint for Facebook's 2009 controversy.
Back in 2006 MySpace changed its T&Cs to provide for an ongoing license
to any content posted on the service as they saw fit, fast forward to
2009 and Facebook has done substantially the same thing. Back in 2006 an
activist user revolt lead by Bragg forced a turnaround from MySpace,
fast forward to 2009 and (absent Billy Bragg) Facebook has done exactly
the same thing.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/21/hey-facebook-wheres-the-respect/
Don
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