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p2pnet news | Freedom:- How’s this for irony of the finest, most satisfying kind?
Facebook users are on the war-path, spurred on by the conviction their privacy is being seriously invaded.
By Facebook.
Now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is demanding magazine 02138, produced for Harvard folks, takes down a bunch of documents it’s currently hosting online, says AHN, quoting the Wall Street Journal.
Because Zuckerberg, who’s allegedly ultimately behind the above-mentioned privacy invasion of millions of its users, is also deathly concerned about privacy.
His own.
‘Skipped classes and blew off homework’
At Harvard, Zuckerberg, “behaved like a typical college kid,” says Luke O’Brien in 02138, kicking off with:
… ongoing lawsuits suggest that Facebook’s origins are murkier than Zuckerberg would like to admit. Is the man many are calling Harvard’s next Bill Gates telling the truth?
The story also says:
“He rushed Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity. According to the Boston Globe, he declared an affinity for Asian women. He skipped classes and blew off homework. ‘It’s a good thing I can B.S. math proofs on the board in real time,’ he wrote in an online journal he kept during one project.”
O’Brien concludes:
“Whatever the legal outcome, we will probably never know what really happened in the Harvard dorms four years ago. And as Facebook mushrooms into one of the biggest databases of personal information in the world, the controversy over the site’s origins will almost certainly be overshadowed by a battle over how it protects users’ privacy. Until a better social network comes along, however, people are logging on to Facebook by the millions. It’s safe to say that Zuckerberg capitalized on the right idea at the right time. The question remains: Whose idea was it?”
And in the preface to THE LINKS (see below 
), The Facebook Files, “examines the origins of the hugely popular social networking website, and reports on a lawsuit filed against Zuckerberg by the founders of a competing website, ConnectU.com, who charge that Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them.
It’s, ” based largely on court documents filed in that lawsuit,” says the item, adding:
They include Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard application; Zuckerberg’s online journal written while he was creating the website, Facemash.com; court documents which allegedly show that Zuckerberg had performed significant work on Facebook in late December 2003; an e-mail from Zuckerberg to Harvard’s Administrative Board, the university discipline committee, in which he responds to a complaint from the founders of ConnectU and alleges that he did not perform significant work until the second half of January 2004; court testimony from Zuckerberg in which he presents his history of Facebook; Facebook’s ‘Statement of Cash Flows’ from the year 2005; court testimony from Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, two of the founders of ConnectU; and a summary of alleged damages to a house sublet to Mark Zuckerberg in 2004.
As posted on 02138, they are:
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard Application (PDF)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s email to Harvard’s Administrative Board (PDF)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony #1 (PDF)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony #2 (PDF)
- Facebook Statement of cash flows 2005 (PDF)
- Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss’s testimony (PDF)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s online diary (PDF)
- Statement of damage done to La Jennifer sublet (PDF)
Definitely stay tuned.
Also See:
on the war-path - Facebook caves to angry users, November 30, 2007
AHN - Facebook Sues To Remove Online Origins Lawsuit, November 30, 2007
02138 - Poking Facebook, November/December, 2007
p2pnet - RIAA may be spying on students: Oregon AG, November 29, 2007
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