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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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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