Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @01:57AM from the what-we-meant-was dept.

rarel writes "CNN and other media outlets report that Facebook reverted their TOS update and went back to using the previous one. 'The site posted a brief message on users' home pages that said it was returning to its previous "Terms of Use" policy "while we resolve the issues that people have raised."' Facebook's controversial changes to its Terms of Service, previously commented on Slashdot, included a mention that (users) 'may remove (their) User Content from the Site at any time. ... However, (they) acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of (their) User Content,' triggering a massive uproar from users and privacy groups."

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Re:Oh, I'm sure that this will last. by pbhj · 2009-02-18 02:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The management noted that Facebook would be, what was it, the 8th largest country in the world by population .. so it's obviously a marketing ploy to get lots of attention, then change the ToS to a socialist/collaborative (OSS-like) model as a pre-cursor to an uprising.
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