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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:

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

  • Facebook and Microsoft Openwashing Alert


    • 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


    • 2018

  • BlackBerry is Now Suing Facebook Using Software Patents, Canadian Press is Talking Like a Patent Troll: “You Better Not Screw With Us”
  • BlackBerry/Facebook Patent Battles Will be Won by Patent Lawyers on Both Sides at the Expense of Technical Staff


    • 2023

  • What Facebook's Founder Said About Facebook's Users (Language Warning, Mark Zuckerberg's Own Words)