VMware: OK, we've heard you. We'll do something about our violations...
Summary: Finally, albeit belatedly, VMware responds to its illegal behaviour (without actually tackling that behaviour, just cheap and rather shallow tokens of ethics or "corporate responsibility")
Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop
it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually