From Techrights
Facebook, a partly Microsoft-owned company, commoditises site users and exploits them voluntarily so as to harvest peer-informing/tracking labour, then sell their linked data. Facebook engages in censorship, patent aggression, and more; privacy is antithetical to its business model. Facebook's abuses that are relevant to Techrights were covered in:
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2009
- Patents Roundup: Microsoft Stung, Microsoft’s Troll Speaks to Facebook, Alternatives Considered, and USPTO Head Calls Patents “Monopolies”
- Microsoft Windows Zombies Also Knocked Facebook and Gawker Offline, More “Critical” Microsoft Flaws Discovered
2010
- Facebook Joins Microsoft’s War on ODF
- Facebook and Intellectual Ventures Revisited
- FBI/Facebook Wants to Know Your ‘Friends’
- Facebook and Microsoft Revisited; New Examples of Microsoft Entryism
- Patents Roundup: USPTO Changes, New Zealand’s Law Ambiguity, Facebook and Apple Sued
- Facebook Gives Data to Microsoft, Encourages Microsoft Lock-in, Expands to Seattle (Speculations/Rumours of Buyout)
- Microsoft Has Attempted to Acquire Facebook
- Microsoft Has Your Facebook and Twitter Data, Tightens Relationship With Those Companies
- Facebook and Microsoft Integrated Further
- Intellectual Ventures Revisited as Facebook is Hoarding Patents; Apple Patents Other People’s Ideas/Implementations
- Microsoft and Facebook Share Data, Advertisements, and Bad Practices
- Amid “Disappointing” Sales of Microsoft Office, Facebook Jumps to Microsoft’s Rescue
- Increasing Microsoft Embedment at Facebook and Yahoo!
- More Software Patents Stockpiling at Facebook
- Facebook is Now Officially a Patent Bully
- Facebook Becomes Like Microsoft’s Hotmail 2.0
2011
- British Parliament to Reduce Dependence on Microsoft While Facebook Increases It
- Facebook: Leveraging Free Software, Promoting Proprietary
- The Partly Microsoft-Owned Facebook is Doing Microsoft’s Dirty Job With Microsoft’s PR Firm
- Facebook Likes Microsoft
- When Patents Attack: Facebook is One of the Attackers
2012
- Facebook Receives Monopoly on Privacy From the USPTO
- Facebook Has Deep Microsoft Ties, Zuckerberg Almost Worked at Microsoft
2013
- Gates, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg Lobby Together Against Public Interests, Relying on Corruptible Officials
- Facebook and Microsoft Get Closer, Now Reaching Their Relationship’s Peak as Facebook Declines
2014
2016
- Mark Zuckerberg's 'Free' Basics Evokes Memory of Him Famously Saying “Facebook Users Are Dumb Fucks... I’m Going to Fuck Them, Probably in the Ear”
- A Patent Aggressor, Facebook, is Still Stockpiling Dubious Software Patents
2017
- Even Patent Bullies Like Microsoft and Facebook Find the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Useful
- WordPress Demonstrates That Facebook's Patent Strategy is Deterring/Alienating Developers
- The Patents Policy of Facebook is Causing an Exodus
