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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by traek on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:36PM (#18612254)
> But being forced to give away half your physical retail space is hardly the same thing as just letting them keep using an API that you provide explicitly for such use.

In this case, Facebook was deprecating the API and declined to provide special whitelist access to a competitor.

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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by kevindqc on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:02PM (#18612502)
So they just heard about Vine, and decided to deprecate the API the same day? That doesn't sound right to me. That conversation seems to indicate they just wanted to block them ASAP (same day), nothing to do with deprecation?
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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by traek on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:39PM (#18614273)
> So they just heard about Vine, and decided to deprecate the API the same day?

No? Where are you getting this read from? The documents clearly show them discussing it from a year prior to shutting down Vine's API access, and planning on announcing it publicly ~6 months prior.

I can't find anything from a quick google search on when the API deprecation actually took effect, but assuming the timeline from Exhibit 43 is accurate, Twitter actually had whitelisted access for over 3 months before being shut down.

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