DamianTV
10-06-2013, 03:47 PM
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/10/05/2235213/social-fixer-falls-victim-to-facebook-legal-threats
"The author of the very excellent Social Fixer browser plug-in is bowing to legal threats from Facebook and removing the core functionality that made his tool so great. I like Social Fixer a lot. It makes Facebook at least three or four times more usable. The author, Matt Kruse, says 'Any threat of legal action is a big deal. I am a one-man operation. If I were sued for whatever reason, I would find it very difficult to defend myself, even if it was without merit. I would be risking my personal life to maintain a tabbed news feed for users. As much as I'd like to be your Robin Hood, I just can't do that to my family.' Bizarrely, when he asked Facebook why they don't also threaten Ad-Block, the Facebook rep claimed to have never heard of it."
And companies dont go after CBS although CBS owns BitTorrent. They do go after The Pirate Bay. They do go after the average 90 year old Music Downloader. They do go after people who write anything that protects Privacy. Except for the ones that really matter.
"The author of the very excellent Social Fixer browser plug-in is bowing to legal threats from Facebook and removing the core functionality that made his tool so great. I like Social Fixer a lot. It makes Facebook at least three or four times more usable. The author, Matt Kruse, says 'Any threat of legal action is a big deal. I am a one-man operation. If I were sued for whatever reason, I would find it very difficult to defend myself, even if it was without merit. I would be risking my personal life to maintain a tabbed news feed for users. As much as I'd like to be your Robin Hood, I just can't do that to my family.' Bizarrely, when he asked Facebook why they don't also threaten Ad-Block, the Facebook rep claimed to have never heard of it."
And companies dont go after CBS although CBS owns BitTorrent. They do go after The Pirate Bay. They do go after the average 90 year old Music Downloader. They do go after people who write anything that protects Privacy. Except for the ones that really matter.