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Re:Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of t... by briandear on Monday September 12, 2016 @11:42AM (#12480660)
Trademark? Why would you need to violate trademarks? MySpace got crushed by FB -- IP and trademarks had nothing to do with it, unless you want to fool people into thinking that you were Facebook.

Build your own system or come up with your own great idea. You don't need to copy Facebook any more than they had to copy MySpace.

You just need to put in some original hard work and make it happen. It isn't Facebook's fault you can't come up with something better that people want to use. There's no patent on social networking.

How would it be fair if you invested a billion dollars in code and marketing only to have someone come along and steal your code? You might not like patents, but they will help protect you and your great idea if you every execute on one.

Facebook isn't stopping you from doing anything.

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Re:Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of t... by danjoc on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:10PM (#12481528)
>Trademark? Why would you need to violate trademarks?

This is a straw man argument. I didn't say violate trademarks. I said trademark enforcement. A small competitor can be wiped out easily with legal costs associated with an extended trademark battle in court.

>Build your own system or come up with your own great idea.

Same straw man. I don't have to violate patents to be sued out of existence.

>There's no patent on social networking.

This statement is categorically false. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=social+network+patent

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Re:Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of t... by Dylan16807 on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:44PM (#12482495)
> I said trademark enforcement. A small competitor can be wiped out easily with legal costs associated with an extended trademark battle in court.

Has anything like that ever happened? Someone starts a business and a competitor with a completely unrelated name wipes them out with a trademark battle?

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Re:Facebook is imposing American censorship on the rest of t... by danjoc on Monday September 12, 2016 @04:49PM (#12483519)
It's going to be hard to point to examples by definition because they were wiped out and nobody ever heard from them again. An example of this you may have heard of, but did not wipe out the company, was AstraZenica's suit against Dr. Reddy's over the purple color of a heartburn pill.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-reddys-blocked-from-selling-p...

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