Comments on: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on its TOS: Blah blah blah but nothing about terminated accounts

By: Facebook: A million US users every week, that’s all it takes to make you the leader | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:15:50 +0000

[...] it might have been facing an uprising against its Terms of Service or giving its users a chance to share their opinion on Facebook Principles, there’s no [...]

By: Facebook submits to community pressure, goes back to old TOS (not for long though) | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:16:34 +0000

[...] a matter of twenty four hours the news of Facebook’s controversial amendments to its TOS and Mark Zuckerberg defending them, the leading social network has rolled back to the old terms. The reason? The community pressure [...]

By: William

William — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:16:10 +0000

Facebook and Twitter are closed source content silos that do not allow you to control the content that you create.

One of the reasons for this is obvious. Selling Member created content is one of the only ways that they can generate revenue. If members actually controlled and owned the content they created,then members would have the ability to demand transparency from Facebook when it came to selling or sharing their content.