Facebook Disabling Key Features on Corporate Boycott Pages!!!

Ah facebook, when will you see you are just another fad, no social networking site is imortal and all will die. you life depends upon the pleasures of the people. Tread softly dear facebook or your popularity will wane much faster than you may have thought.

I deleted my facebook account a while ago. I'm glad I did.

To be honest, all of this is just whining and winging. You wouldn't complain to the police about the law? You wouldn't complain to the Royal Mail for not delivering on Sundays...

Stop whining and get on with it. Bloody whiners.

We are not threatening legal action. We are threatening to drive your stock value down. Please comply.

I could not care less.

I just disconnected my faceboof account. I will never use them again. I really didn't do much there anyway

Mark Zuckerberg is a disconnected douche.

I could honestly care less about what Facebook is doing. It's more of this bs about these social networks, and just like Myspace, Facebook has had it's time and now it's time to jump the shark. People bitched about the kids on Myspace, how the kids were killing annoying and how people's pages slowed down their [crappy] computers.

Now we're at facebook, and the more political minded people are worrying about privacy, while the more uninformed people are only worrying about how boring facebook is getting, and moving to Twitter and creating this false vale of self importance around themselves. Don't put anything up on facebook you don't want anyone to see, and that's not hard, any real personal business, no personal business in your wall, because everyone can see that and not everyone you add is an 100% friend. Nothing is on my facebook, but a few pics, I only friend 74 friends(and the majority all came looking for me) my likes, and some rants on my Wall.

If you want to get rid of your facebook, then find the actual delete page, it's hidden, but search Google "How to really delete your facebook" it's a 14 day process, and it's not the deactivation it's the full deletion.

But we'll see what happens next, whats the next big thing, because like I said; in five short years facebook has jumped the shark, movies and all of this other crap.

While I'm looking forward to the film(Trent Reznor on music, Director of Fight Club, Se7ven and of other good films, directing) this might me good.

I honestly could care less. I use face book to keep in touch with friends and family. This does not interfere with that. Like other people have said, facebook is a private company and they can do what they want.

Facebook sucks. Just ditch it.

You need to read the terms of service. I'm pretty sure everything covered in this article is against their terms of service.. so it was removed... fair enough.

They own the website, they can do what they like with it.

facebook has taken plenty of videos off of my page as well, i got over and so will they...just found another way thru the loop holes..complaining about it doesnt get u anywhere, but doing something gets u everywhere...

five years from know we will be speaking (if at all) of Facebook as we do now of Myspace or napster. It was big once and some people still use it but most of us have just moved on because it has become irrelevant.

Sadly true, but Facebook is not bound to uphold any freedom of speech standards, just as moderators can delete comments they don't like from privately owned message boards. I would be willing to bet they do the same for any group that might be harmful to an advertiser or sponsor. What makes this frustrating for many is that, for better or worse (oh, let's just say worse...) Facebook has become the central hub for gathering on-line, but it's hardly a place that encourages free speech (unless you want to tell everyone all about how great your Farmville farm is doing). The bottom line: when profit's at stake, free speech becomes an inconvenient luxury. Facebook, like Current, could have changed the world, but once again, money is the word of the day. Maybe this will finally give rise to a multi-platform site that will allow like-minded people to gather and discuss openly about relevant issues, to engage in the kind of social activism that is necessary for a functioning democracy. You know, like what Current was supposed to be before MTV took over.

Here is an idea, Why don't all you Gay's and Lesbians fund a server and start your own website. Just like my business Facebook can refuse service to anyone it chooses, at anytime, for any reason. I boycot Home Depot because they support Gay rights, but I don't go on-line and slander the company to further that agenda. Their employees can wear Gay Rights Pins but not the Amercian Flag or anything that says in GOD we trust? I simply cut off the Home Depot to the tune of Tens of Thousands of Dollars a year in business.

--Snip--we restrict Pages that represent ideas or positions - rather than discrete entities - from publishing stories to people's News Feeds--Snip--

So, all the stuff that's "I love chocolate", "Look! Look! Look!...Ahh you missed it", "I really hate slow computers", and the 5 bazillion (Overstatement 'cause I can't be bothered to actually count) other pages similar to those should be restricted, right?

as much as this sucks and i don't agree, it is a privately owned website.

This is the last straw for me. I had an account simply to name-squat, keeping other people from posing as me, but that site is run by a corporatist prick, and it shows where his true allegiances lie. It's not worth it. Deleting profile as I write this.

why dont you take physical political action then....

If they did , it is also the sound of their own death knell ......

Facebook can really go fuck themselves. I am not even going to go watch that piece of trash movie they made about it either. Facebook is a convenient tool...but it is getting a huge ego and it needs to be taken down several notches.

How is Facebook infringing on democracy? Facebook is not a government, they are a private corporation. They have every right to restrict whatever content they choose.

If enough people care they will boycott Facebook and the company will be forced to change their practices. That is how the free market works.