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Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award by madamelic on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:29PM (#14036340)
>I suspect there isn't much interest from users in things-trying-to-be-facebook of importing the data.

And the legalities of that.

FB did a major legal smackdown on someone trying to do that.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award by thejohnhenry on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:18PM (#14037307)
Do you have a link to the history here? Would love to hear about it.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award by jrochkind1 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:26PM (#14093094)
Curious for a link to that. Facebook lets you download your own data. But if you upload that data somewhere else, they're going to sue someone?
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