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Posted on 08/28/2019 2:10:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Replaces 'free and always will be' with 'quick and easy'
(Newser) – "Hello everyone, it seems that all the warnings were real, facebook use will cost money. If you send this string to 18 different people from your list, your icon will be blue and it will be free for you." Surely you've seen that scam going around Facebook for years ... but now there might be something to the idea. The social network has, since 2008, said "It's free and always will be" on its signup page, right underneath the words "Create an account." The new language since around Aug. 7, as noted by Business Insider: "It's quick and easy." An official Facebook help page says the site still has no plans to charge its users a fee, and a rep for the company says the same in response to questions about the new text. So what's the deal?
A cyber law professor shares his theory with USA Today: It reflects public perception. "The public no longer sees Facebook as 'free'—that rings hollow now," he says, pointing to Facebook's tracking of users and the personalized ads it delivers. A lawyer and digital law expert tells Business Insider the slogan change could have been sparked by the European Parliament's May directive that recognizes data exchange as a form of payment. Speaking of Facebook controversies, Reuters reports that 83 scholars working with the social network to research how it impacts democracy said Tuesday they might quit the project because Facebook is not making the full set of necessary data available to them. (Read more Facebook stories.)
Sounds like their lawyers told them that they need to cover their butts and remove that because legally it would now be false advertisement considering the situation.
Sign up and we treat you like Dirt but we make tons of money
Any lawyers out there want to file a suit claiming FB owes us money for using our information for its own financial gain?
They couldnt pay me enough. My privacy is not for sale.
FOFB
Facebook as a service, like Windows as a service, is coming.
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I can hardly wait until they make people pay to use Facebook. They should do the same for Twitter and even YouTube. Then everyone will go to Gab and Minds and BitChute.
They owe us reparations!
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