Cody Taylor

In the light of the global shitstorm, Facebook has decided to go back to the old Terms of Service. Phew, now we can all safely go back to sending each other digital cupcakes without Big Brother watching us.

illectro writes “A study on site availability by monitoring service Pingdom shows that in 2008 Twitter greeted users with the ‘Fail Whale’ for more than 84 hours, almost twice as much as any other site. At the other end of the scale imeem and Xanga managed less than 4 hours of downtime for 99.95% uptime. Myspace, Facebook and Classmates.com were the only other sites studied which managed to stay up more than 99.9% of the time.”

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Wake the fuck up Zuckerberg! You are going to burn it to the ground by your own hand.

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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With today’s outrage over Facebook’s newly altered Terms of Service at its peak, I figured I’d do a quick comparison of their terms of service as regards user-uploaded content to the terms specified by other social networking sites, just to see if said outrage is fully justified. It looks as though the finger-pointing at the Bush robots.txt file wa