Crooked in Canada

Anybody think that the founder of Facebook might be a thief disguised as a successful Internet entrepreneur?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may be considered an Internet entrepreneurial genius for creating the world’s largest social networking site, and then cashing in big time to the tune of a billion dollars or so, but when it comes to commonsense, the Australian is severely lacking in it.

Because of his lack of commonsense, Zuckerman is probably going to pay a high price for his attempt to exploit users for his own financial gain. Steal from them is a good way to put it.

I hear users are deleting their accounts the likes of which Facebook has never seen before.

My wife and I won’t be deleting our accounts anytime soon, not that I put a whole lot of effort and information into my Facebook profile to begin with (my wife does though), and we’re not really concerned if Zuckerman thinks he can get away with stealing our Facebook content.

Should he ever try to exploit our “personal content” for his own personal financial gain however, I will hunt the little prick down. There is not any amount of money in the world that is going to protect him from what I would do to him.

You “eff with the bull,” you get the horn, and trust me I would go after Zuckerman like a rampaging bull through the streets of Pamplona, Spain if he thought he could get away with exploiting my “personal content” for his own financial gain, terms of service agreement or not. He would be stupid to consider an attempt to cross me in that way, in fact, anybody would be.

What a fool Zuckerberg was for thinking that he could change Facebook’s Terms of Service so that he could “legally steal” users personal content for his own financial gain.

I say “was,” because Zuckerberg has since had a change of heart after Facebook users went off on him in emails, calling him on the bullshit he was shovelling to them with his “You can trust us” nonsense.

I refer to him as a fool because he should have at the very least recognized the risk he would be taking when he came up with this ridiculously inane and exploitive plan.

Surely, he had to have known the backlash that would come from Facebook users, his bread and butter when it comes to making money, and that they would be leaving Facebook as fast as people would jump off a sinking boat of the shores of Bangladesh, the Philippines, or Thailand.

What an effin’ idiot.  He should remove himself from the Facebook management all together. It’s time for him to go for a powder, and not the kind of powder he must have been putting up his nose when he came up with this silly idea.

Zuckerberg is now on his hands and knees begging members not to leave the social networking and he has apologized for what his obviously a “brain-freeze” of an idea, but the damage has already been done, and it isn’t over for Zuckerberg just yet.

You can bet that there are going to be advertisers and sponsors of the website calling for his head, and they should be considering that every time a Facebook user deletes their account, they lose out financially, and their credibility diminishes with each member who deletes their account by the mere fact that they were associated with Facebook when Zuckerman tried to put one over on those fleeing members.

Zuckerberg needs to be relieved from his duties at Facebook, and don’t be so naive as to think that he can’t be relieved of his duties.

There are many players with a financial stake in the maintaining and future development in the site, and thanks to Zuckerberg’s greed, they are going to suffer a little.

Kick the arrogant little bastard to the kerb now.

Zuckerberg and his Facebook associates have lost the one thing that Internet users covet the most when they are online, trust in others.

Parts of the now abandoned terms of service agreement Zuckerberg was trying to force down Facebook member’s throats:

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.

You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.

The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other.

What’s interesting about the “terms of service” Zuckerberg was trying to shove down our throats is that if anybody challenged it a court of law, they could win, provided of course they had more than Facebook to challenge it.

There is nothing legally binding about it.  It is worth nothing more than a handshake.

Any lawyer familiar with Internet law could and should be telling people that, and so shoudl the judges who were salivating and rubbing their palms together when the new Facebook terms of service became known to them.

You can bet some judges were hoping somebody would one day go after Facebook if they used certain “personal content” for their own financial gain or marketing purposes.

Then there are those Facebook members who have their own copyrighted material on the site.  Imagine the heyday they would have if Facebook exploited their “copyrighted stuff.”