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Facebook Outlines New Governing Principles, Asks for Feedback

Facebook Outlines New Principles, Asks for Feedback
After inciting an uproar with some rather draconian revisions to its terms of service (TOS), Facebook accepted defeat and retracted the new policies. (The controversial policies, which lasted all of a day or two, gave it ownership of all content posted on the site, including photos and personal information.)

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Now Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has pledged via blog post to take users' suggestions and feedback for all future revisions to the site's TOS. The company has also published two documents: one outlines the rights and responsibilities of users and the site, while the other outlines the governing principles Facebook will use as a framework for future policy development.

Zuckerberg says that from now on Facebook will be governed in an open and transparent way (sounds like the pledges of a certain new president). The "principles" document also says that users will own all of their content and information. On top of that, all accounts will now be treated equally and there will be no more arbitrary removal of profiles.

In keeping with the new principles, users are encouraged to comment on Zuckerberg's blog post and the two new policy documents, so feel free to give him a piece of your mind. Who knew that belonging to a social networking site could get so complicated? [From: Download Squad]

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