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Facebook: the new threat to the net

To Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO:

We call on you to institute a policy of 100% transparency with users about how you serve us content, and stop rewarding corporations with big budgets in our Facebook feeds. Facebook claims to be a space for authentic social connections for users to share interests and information. We do not want it to become a marketplace for advertising that serves Facebook's bottom line. We call on you to ensure Facebook stays true to what made you popular: being a user-driven social network that serves people, not tricks them.  

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Facebook: the new threat to the net
This week, Facebook changed our email addresses on our profiles without our permission. It is making global news, but this is just a small part of Facebook’s grand plan to suck the entire free internet into their private company and control everything we do on the net to make the most profit for them. But we can stop this, because Facebook is nothing without us.

Worse than our email address hijacking, and off the media radar, Facebook has quietly just put our feeds up for sale -- now they are replacing the posts our friends want us to see with things that someone pays Facebook to show us. This is scary, but we have a window of opportunity to do something about it: the company has just listed on the stock market and are in a critical period of decision-making about their future. If we create a public storm on their site we could remind them that without us they don’t exist and these creepy moves are not good for business.

Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the internet, has called Facebook of its greatest threats. But a massive outcry of net users is the best way to get the company's attention. Sign the petition and tell everyone -- let’s get a massive wave of the nearly one billion Facebook users to tell them to stay true to what made them popular, and make profit by serving people, not tricking them.
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