About two weeks ago, Facebook announced that it had revised it’s Terms of Service (ToS) to essentially say that the site owns any and all content published by users, forever. It seemed very gloom and doom and people were upset despite Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to blog about it an make things OK again. And then today Facebook decided to scrap the new ToS, opting for the previous version while they rewrite a new set.
One’s natural inclination upon hearing about the new ToS was toward anger, frustration, dismay. The idea that the site could own the content of 175 million people (which, if it were a country, would be the 6th largest in the world), just like that, is preposterous to say the least.
