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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by rebuilder on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:22AM (#25178099)
The thing is, I don't see how Facebook have any business allowing or forbidding users to install software on their own devices. I mean, if this was about FB banning users for TOS violations, that's one thing. But claiming a third party is not legally allowed to provide software that does something FB do not like? That's a whole different can of worms.
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Re:Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy by edmundsauto on Sunday November 22, 2020 @11:58AM (#25178913)
IANAL, but if NYU makes software designed to violate a contract between user and FB, isn’t that torturous interference? IOW, I think what you just described is not legal. I can’t make something that is designed to violate a contract, then step back and pretend they aren’t encouraging users to violate a contract w fb.
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