Facebook - silencing the competition?

- - A reminder that The Cloud is full of little autocracies and dictatorships that will determine their citizens' information rights...

Facebook Tries to Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links and Likes
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-blocks-lamebook/

Facebook wants the Austin startup to quit using the name Lamebook, deeming its activities under that name an “improper attempt to build a brand that trades off Facebook’s popularity and fame”

Today's Lesson: Make Facebook Angry, and They'll Censor You Into Oblivion
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-censorship/

Facebook is well on its way to becoming the most popular way that people share links, photos, and other content with their friends. For many sites it’s becoming a powerful new driver of traffic — get people to ‘Like’ your stuff, and Facebook’s network effects will expose it to dozens of their friends.

Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you’ve worked so hard to build.
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