Facebook tyrannize ‘social media suicide’ website

Posted on | January 10, 2010 | 1 Comment

Facebook (FB) strikes hard on anyone who facilitate users to unhook themselves from the grip of the social media titan. The Guardian has an article on how the world’s largest social network, Facebook, has been bullying a small Dutch web-service that enables users to systematically delete their profile on social networks including FB – in other words; enable social media suicide.

When visiting suicidemachine.org, you find this announcement:

Probably you have heard that Facebook completely blocked and banned our service from their servers since last Sunday (in case you haven’t, please follow up the whole story by Paul McNamara here).

Yesterday we received a Cease and Desist letter (you can read the pdf here) from Facebook lawyers kindly asking us to stop our service and remove all Facebook profile pictures we collected for the memorial pages and anything else which could be associated with Facebook from our website. They gave us quite some time to respond upon their request. Therefore, we are currently considering our further steps and watching the countdown.

Time left to answer Facebook:

1 days, 10 hours, 49 minutes, 5 seconds (Ed.: At the time of writing of this blog post)

Read the Guardian article here – or go to suicidemachine.org.

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