Digg, Google Capitulate to Facebook: Will Zuckerberg Fess Up?
Facebook rules? Now, more than ever. Mark Zuckerberg even has Google at Facebook attention.
DIGG TOO.
Remember when Digg’s Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson promised to “go down fighting” instead of “bowing down to a bigger company”?
“If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying” Rose boasted in defending Digg’s right to host HD-DVD encryption key code. His infamous (but belated) “Digg This: 09-f9-11-02…blog battle cry for digging democracy still stands.
Was Rose’s InDiggnation but a one time thing though? “We won’t delete stories containg the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be,” were Rose’s leaked code must be free fighting words in May.
In face of Facebook’s legal threats regarding its leaked code, however, Digg has no such free the code stance.
Gone is Digg’s democracy of news defiance, in favor of Facebook’s defiant legal threats.
Facebook Legal to Digg re Digger submissions at Digg “Facebook source code leaked, Actual PHP code”:
If these materials are not expeditiously removed, we reserve the right to pursue all legal remedies available to us, including seeking damages and injunctive relief.
Digg response to Facebook? Compliance.
No Digg news democracy problem? Digg is even selling ads against its capitulation announcement! Digg ads (still) by Google, a fellow Facebook capitualtor.
Google, of course, is an old hand at firing off DMCA takedown notices, a skill perfected at its YouTube no need to pay for the copyright content of others “business.”
Google’s Blogger, the Google property where Facebook’s not so secure code was proudly displayed, has a well honed “Digital Millenium Copyright Act” do’s and don’ts in place and “Facebook (not so coding) Secrets” has gotten the don’t treatment: The Facebook code is gone.
Facebook is trying to clean the Web of its dirty little coding secrets.
When will Facebook really save face though and come clean on why big bad “bugs” are wreaking havoc at the not so safe Zuckerberg haven?
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