Facebook Banning & Threatening People For Making Facebook Better Is Everything That's Wrong With Facebook

Facebook Banning & Threatening People For Making Facebook Better Is Everything That's Wrong With Facebook

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211009/01035347721/facebook-banning-threatening-people-making-facebook-better-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-facebook.shtml

Regular readers know that I'm a believer in trying to get the big internet companies to embrace a more protocols over platforms approach, in which they're building something that others can then build on as well, and improve in their own ways (without fear of having the rug pulled out from under them). It's why I'm hopeful about Twitter working on just such a plan with its Bluesky project. Facebook, unfortunately, takes a very different view of the world.

While I understand that some of Facebook's thinking around this is a reaction to what happened when it had created a more open platform for developers... and thenCambirdge Analytica happened, which has been an ongoing (if somewhat confusingly understood) black eye for the company. But Facebook has always been a bit skittish about how open it has wanted to be. Famously, it killed Power.com with an unfortunate reading of the CFAA when that company tried to create a universal login for various social media sites, and to help people not be locked in to just one social media site.