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Fallout? It's not fallout when facebook users use facebook to protest.

Why do people expect privacy in a website in which one's goal is to display their vanity to everyone?

This is about ownership of your posted items - including videos, pictures, and words... amongst other things.

Not so much about privacy -- it's about claiming ownership of your files.

Consider Facebook is really just a web host. You upload your files to this webhost... except this webhost (facebook) tells you they own everything you upload there... forever. Even if you delete your webhost account, and delete all the files on there, they own it all forever.

Would this be acceptable if it was your webapp being hosted... and the webhost said from now on, 'all your files are belong to us!!!! 4Evar!!!'?

Why are you submitting summaries from Slashdot?

The title is sensationalist and articles on these ToS issues have already been posted here.

Agreed.

Please join me in flagging this.

A new response from Zuck - http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54746167130, one that should satisfy a lot of people.

Slashdot | Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout