Update on the Facebook vs. Suicidemachine issue

Posted on | January 11, 2010 | No Comments

After the story came out about how Facebook is trying to tyranize a small Dutch web-service, that helps people disconnect from social media services, quite a lot of attention has been drawn to the case. Especially on the wonderful Nettime-mailinglist where people gather to discuss issues of net criticism. One of the most interesting posts, by a certain Maja van der Velden, goes like this:

“Seppukkoo (http://www.seppukoo.com/), a Facebook suicide machine, which also received a Cease and Desist letter from Facebook, has sent a letter back to the lawyers of Facebook, see: http://www.seppukoo.com/docs/les_liens_reply_to_facebook.pdf“

Please take the time to read the mentioned strike-back letter. It is utter beauty from beginning to end and reminds me of a similar letter sent by the editors of Boing Boing to the lawyers of Demi Moore as a part of the hilarious W-magazine photoshop disaster story. Oh, Suicidemachine, please adopt this letter and stick it to The Man!

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