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Re:The brief history of Facebook apologizing by spike021 on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:50AM (#7977674)
Not really sure why Facebook needs to apologize at all.

It's a free service that you agree to use. You should read the fine-print if you care about anything like this.

If it can be proven that experiments or anything else worth apologizing for is detrimental in some way, then something needs to be said. But otherwise, I think they're free to do with they want with their data.

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Re:The brief history of Facebook apologizing by sp332 on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:36PM (#7977956)
Free things still aren't allowed to cause harm to the people who use them. And the fine print wasn't changed until after the experiment.
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Re:The brief history of Facebook apologizing by spike021 on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:56PM (#7978069)
Right. Like I said, if it can be proven that their experiment caused harm of some kind, then that's when something should be done.
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Re:The brief history of Facebook apologizing by jesuslop on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @02:04PM (#7978548)
They need to apologize if they worry about the PR mess this has become and about their ad prints revenues.
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Re:The brief history of Facebook apologizing by amaks on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:15PM (#7977825)
Define "free service". It might be free as a beer, but definitely not free as in speech.
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