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Facebook, a partly Microsoft-owned company, commoditises site users and exploits them voluntarily so as to harvest peer-informing/tracking labour, then sell their linked data. Facebook engages in censorship, patent aggression, and more; privacy is antithetical to its business model. Facebook's abuses that are relevant to Techrights were covered in:

2009

Patents Roundup: Microsoft Stung, Microsoft’s Troll Speaks to Facebook, Alternatives Considered, and USPTO Head Calls Patents “Monopolies”

Microsoft Windows Zombies Also Knocked Facebook and Gawker Offline, More “Critical” Microsoft Flaws Discovered

2010

Facebook Joins Microsoft’s War on ODF

Facebook and Intellectual Ventures Revisited

FBI/Facebook Wants to Know Your ‘Friends’

Facebook and Microsoft Revisited; New Examples of Microsoft Entryism

Patents Roundup: USPTO Changes, New Zealand’s Law Ambiguity, Facebook and Apple Sued

Facebook Gives Data to Microsoft, Encourages Microsoft Lock-in, Expands to Seattle (Speculations/Rumours of Buyout)

Microsoft Has Attempted to Acquire Facebook

Microsoft Has Your Facebook and Twitter Data, Tightens Relationship With Those Companies

Facebook and Microsoft Integrated Further

Intellectual Ventures Revisited as Facebook is Hoarding Patents; Apple Patents Other People’s Ideas/Implementations

Microsoft and Facebook Share Data, Advertisements, and Bad Practices

Amid “Disappointing” Sales of Microsoft Office, Facebook Jumps to Microsoft’s Rescue

Increasing Microsoft Embedment at Facebook and Yahoo!

More Software Patents Stockpiling at Facebook

Facebook is Now Officially a Patent Bully

Facebook Becomes Like Microsoft’s Hotmail 2.0

2011

British Parliament to Reduce Dependence on Microsoft While Facebook Increases It

Facebook: Leveraging Free Software, Promoting Proprietary

The Partly Microsoft-Owned Facebook is Doing Microsoft’s Dirty Job With Microsoft’s PR Firm

Facebook Likes Microsoft

When Patents Attack: Facebook is One of the Attackers

2012

Facebook Receives Monopoly on Privacy From the USPTO

Facebook Has Deep Microsoft Ties, Zuckerberg Almost Worked at Microsoft

2013

Gates, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg Lobby Together Against Public Interests, Relying on Corruptible Officials

Facebook and Microsoft Get Closer, Now Reaching Their Relationship’s Peak as Facebook Declines

2014

Facebook and Microsoft Openwashing Alert

2016

Mark Zuckerberg's 'Free' Basics Evokes Memory of Him Famously Saying “Facebook Users Are Dumb Fucks... I’m Going to Fuck Them, Probably in the Ear”

A Patent Aggressor, Facebook, is Still Stockpiling Dubious Software Patents

2017

Even Patent Bullies Like Microsoft and Facebook Find the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Useful

WordPress Demonstrates That Facebook's Patent Strategy is Deterring/Alienating Developers

The Patents Policy of Facebook is Causing an Exodus

2018

BlackBerry is Now Suing Facebook Using Software Patents, Canadian Press is Talking Like a Patent Troll: “You Better Not Screw With Us”

BlackBerry/Facebook Patent Battles Will be Won by Patent Lawyers on Both Sides at the Expense of Technical Staff

2023

What Facebook's Founder Said About Facebook's Users (Language Warning, Mark Zuckerberg's Own Words)

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