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"Her account, which was recently deleted by the company for unknown reasons, was non-commercial, it represented simply a person, wasn't excessively large, didn't contain any nudity or other objectionable material. When she asked for an explanation, they told her to read the terms and conditions. When Scoble asked Zuckerberg about it he gave an annoying explanation about how the company would rather have some "false positives" instead of have their system abused." - Dave Winer from Bookmarklet

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Dave, you think Zuckerberg cares for each and every individual Facebook user? I'm sure your not that naive. - Amit Morson

Facebook == Lame (not really the technology, but the way it's implemented and managed) - Rahsheen the Dream

Amit, first you say something ridiculous (which actually isn't all that ridiculous, when you stop and think about it) and you imply I said it (though you don't directly say I said it). Then you say that someone who thought that would (in your opinion) be naive. - Dave Winer

Now, yes I think a CEO should care about every user. I don't think Zuckerberg does, based on what he said to Scoble (linked to from my piece). I think he should care the same way the CEO of an airline cares whether a passenger on his airline is injured on one of their flights, esp if it was a policy of the airline that hurt the passenger. - Dave Winer

An airline CEO cares for every passenger on his planes because he will be sued for millions if something happens. - Amit Morson

And BTW, I didn't say you said it, I asked it :-) - Amit Morson

Clever, but not exactly true Amit. Here's an example: Do you think an adult should wear clean underwear? Yes -- that's a question. But there is an implication that you at least smell bad, and even expresses a theory as to why you do. :-) - Dave Winer

I think in the case where humans are involved it is better to have false negatives than false positives - mostly because the false negatives usually get figured out pretty fast (i.e. at the second complaint). But in a world where companies and governments take website owners to court to intimidate them into doing their own censorship, I can see why owners are easily moved to prefer... more... - Iphigenie

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