Submission + - Facebook drops proposed new T&C due to censorship fears (zdnet.co.uk)
superglaze writes: "Facebook's extraordinarily quiet consultation over proposed changes to its terms elicited enough of a response (mostly from German speakers) to make the company drop a clause that some users feared could be used to justify censorship.
The clause had read: "Some or all of Facebook's services and features may not be available to users in certain geographic areas. We reserve the right to exclude or limit the provision of any service or feature in our sole discretion." Facebook said the wording had been open to misinterpretation.
On a related note, tracking these changes is getting stupidly difficult. Not only does Facebook only provide notifications of changes on its obscure site governance page, but actually seeing what has been changed involves cross-checking different tracking documents. Bad Facebook."
The clause had read: "Some or all of Facebook's services and features may not be available to users in certain geographic areas. We reserve the right to exclude or limit the provision of any service or feature in our sole discretion." Facebook said the wording had been open to misinterpretation.
On a related note, tracking these changes is getting stupidly difficult. Not only does Facebook only provide notifications of changes on its obscure site governance page, but actually seeing what has been changed involves cross-checking different tracking documents. Bad Facebook."