Who's More Dumb: Facebook or Its Users?

Facebook quietly changed its terms of service agreement recently. Bloggers freaked, triggering a public uproar that forced Facebook to revert back to the older version and come up with a better ToS agreement.

The Facebook ToS always said, essentially, that the good people at Facebook can do anything they want with pictures and other content you upload. Those goofy pictures you uploaded of you and your high school buddies? Yeah, Facebook owns those.

The old, reposted version of Facebook’s ToS had a thin thread of user control in the form of an explicit termination of the full license when you delete something. The now-revoked new version took that away.

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