Facebook accidentally tries to kill Lamebook

[Emil]

Facebook is currently in a trademark dispute with Lamebook, a site dedicated to poking fun at the status updates, photos, and comments users post on the social networking site. It appears that Facebook bullied Lamebook recently, however, though the Palo Alto company now says that was a mistake, according to NBC.

Facebook recently shutdown Lamebook's Facebook Page and the Like buttons on Lamebook.com. "Well, Facebook didn't like us sticking up for ourselves, so they shut down our Fan Page, are preventing any users from 'liking' us, and won't even let you share URLs with your friends if they point to Lamebook," reads a message on the joke site. "In light of this, be sure to follow us on Twitter so you get updated with the latest and funniest of the lame!"

All this functionality has been restored, apparently, after Facebook realized it messed up. "This was a mistake on our part," Bret Taylor, Facebook's CTO, said in a statement. "In the process of dealing with a routine trademark violation issue regarding some links posted to Facebook, we blocked all mentions of the phrase "lamebook" on Facebook. We are committed to promoting free expression on Facebook. We apologize for our mistake in this case, and we are working to fix the process that led to this happening."

If Facebook had done this on purpose, it would have been a huge abuse of the website's power (Lamebook likely gets a fair share of traffic, and thus money from advertising, thanks to Facebook). It's therefore slightly reassuring that the company fixed the issue on its own accord.

After Facebook threatened to take the parody site to court, Lamebook filed a lawsuit earlier this month, asking the court to rule that it did not infringe upon Facebook trademarks and that it is protected by the US First Amendment. Last week, Facebook filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against Lamebook in federal court, arguing that Lamebook is not a legally protected parody because it does not "provide any critique or comment of Facebook itself." In the meantime, Lamebook is asking its users for donations to its legal fund.

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[Jesse]

Facebook is an evil giant. Yea right they did it accidentally. They just realized they were going to get into some **** for it, so they backpedaled as fast as they could.

 

[lchu12]

prismatics said:
Facebook is an evil giant. Yea right they did it accidentally. They just realized they were going to get into some **** for it, so they backpedaled as fast as they could.

Agreed.

 

[posermobile89]

lchu12 said:

prismatics said:
Facebook is an evil giant. Yea right they did it accidentally. They just realized they were going to get into some **** for it, so they backpedaled as fast as they could.

Agreed.

double agreed

 

[Burty117]

prismatics said:
Facebook is an evil giant. Yea right they did it accidentally. They just realized they were going to get into some **** for it, so they backpedaled as fast as they could.

Triple Agreed!

 

[Guest]

Also helicopters

 

[Wagan8r]

Yet another example of Zuckerberg's "I've every mistake you could think of". Too bad he doesn't learn and continues to make them.

 

[matrix86]

"Facebook accidentally tries to kill Lamebook"

I hate to be the grammar Natzi here, but you can't "accidentally try" to do something, lol. You either accidentally do something, or you try to do something...trying means their is a purpose behind your actions. HIEL GRAMMAR!

 

[bakape]

matrix86 said:
"Facebook accidentally tries to kill Lamebook"

I hate to be the grammar Natzi here, but you can't "accidentally try" to do something, lol. You either accidentally do something, or you try to do something...trying means their is a purpose behind your actions. HIEL GRAMMAR!

Thus the ironic oxymoron.

 

[captaincranky]

"Facebook accidentally tries to kill Lamebook"

I hate to be the grammar Natzi here, but you can't "accidentally try" to do something, lol. You either accidentally do something, or you try to do something...trying means their is a purpose behind your actions. HIEL GRAMMAR!

I think that a rephrase might satisfy the Grammar Fuhrer's lust for power.

"Facebook" could have been merely trying to wound, "Lamebook", and accidentally killed it in the process.

Since all of this is hypothetical, the tenses of those verbs were giving me quite a tussle. Accordingly, feel free to comment on that, but be forewarned, I simply don't care.

 

[Guest]

Shouldn't it be "tried" to kill, and not "tries" to kill? Past tense and all.

 

[princeton]

matrix86 said:
"Facebook accidentally tries to kill Lamebook"

I hate to be the grammar Natzi here, but you can't "accidentally try" to do something, lol. You either accidentally do something, or you try to do something...trying means their is a purpose behind your actions. HIEL GRAMMAR!

It's Emil. Did you expect perfect grammar and spelling?

 

[captaincranky]

"Facebook" could have been merely trying to wound, "Lamebook", and accidentally killed it in the process.

Since all of this is hypothetical, the tenses of those verbs were giving me quite a tussle. Accordingly, feel free to comment on that, but be forewarned, I simply don't care.

Shouldn't it be "tried" to kill, and not "tries" to kill? Past tense and all.

OK, I was jus' funnin' witcha about the verb's tenses.

The first phrase of the sentence is in the past conditional or subjunctive mood, and the concluding phrase is the the past tense.

 

[jonelsorel]

That Zuckenberg of a master just admitted recently in an interview that they made all the mistakes they could with the company.. I guess the list can go on, huh? Stupid owner, stupid site, fake friends and all. Socializing my ***. Real socializing happens OUTSIDE the house. But that's something Zucky hasn't learned yet it seems.

 

[captaincranky]

That Zuckenberg of a master just admitted recently in an interview that they made all the mistakes they could with the company.. I guess the list can go on, huh? Stupid owner, stupid site, fake friends and all. Socializing my ***. Real socializing happens OUTSIDE the house. But that's something Zucky hasn't learned yet it seems.

The real tragedy, is that 500,000,000 million subscribers haven't learned that either.

 

[jonelsorel]

captaincranky said:
The real tragedy, is that 500,000,000 million subscribers haven't learned that either.

A majority of whom are citizens of developed nations, I suspect. No biggie though. Without being a partisan of any social system in particular ("power corrupts"), capitalism is screwed from inception anyway, and will crumble eventually.

 

[maestromasada]

What is facebook anyway? a massive ball of junk, full of dismembered people rolling over the land, squashing over more people and dragging them in, careful! here the come! take cover!

 

[captaincranky]

A majority of whom are citizens of developed nations, I suspect. No biggie though. Without being a partisan of any social system in particular ("power corrupts"), capitalism is screwed from inception anyway, and will crumble eventually.

Honor to labor, comrade! Or whatever God or establishment you kneel to.

 

[vlad4861]

it looks like i'm the only fan of facebook here...it's like watching hockey game where everyone is cheering for the same team

 

[jonelsorel]

Cool! What is it like being a fan of fake human interactions ?

 

[jonelsorel]

captaincranky said:
Honor to labor, comrade! Or whatever God or establishment you kneel to.

I can consider myself lucky for having lived in both socialism and capitalism. The point is I condone neither, both have advantages, both have drawbacks. But when it comes to civil liberties, capitalism makes the other one look like a joke.

 

[captaincranky]

Cool! What is it like being a fan of fake human interactions ?

I thought all human interaction was faked, starting with the "orgasm" at the moment of our conception.

I can consider myself lucky for having lived in both socialism and capitalism. The point is I condone neither, both have advantages, both have drawbacks. But when it comes to civil liberties, capitalism makes the other one look like a joke.

I doubt that you have lived under socialism. Most, if not all governments, purporting to be "socialist", were actually communist states. Hippie Communes were probably closer to true socialism, than the totalitarian regimes passing themselves off as "socialist".

 

[Nima304]

prismatics said:
Facebook is an evil giant. Yea right they did it accidentally. They just realized they were going to get into some **** for it, so they backpedaled as fast as they could.

I agree entirely. I hope Lamebook wins the lawsuit.

 

[vlad4861]

pretty damn goood!!
i haven't met nearly in as many people in person as before i joined. but i do understand that many socializing online only.

 

[Benny26]

Dropped a bit of a big bollock here has facebook...But hey, what's new eh?