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Facebook Continues The TOS Debate; Opens Town Halls And Access To Zuckerberg
paidContent — ... of a massive social network. On the pragmatic side, it's about the potential value of that massive network. Today's PR barrage includes: —CEO Mark Zuckerberg doing a rare conference call (it's at 2. 00 p.m. eastern; we'll post as warranted. I'll also twitter at sdkstl.) to discuss "the new steps Facebook is taking to improve user understanding and ownership of the Facebook terms of service and, more generally, the policies of the Facebook service." —posting proposed Facebook Principles and a proposed Facebook Statement of Rights ...

Facebook Will Let Users Help Draft New Terms Of Service [Facebook]
Consumerist — ... will be drafted with direct input from readers in the form of commentary, direct voting, and the creation of a "user council" to function as a sort of parliament. They've also introduced preliminary versions of two documents, Facebook Principles and a ...

Democracy (Sort of) Comes to Facebook [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Facebook today rolled out a change to its terms of service, after an earlier attempt went terribly wrong. What’s most interesting about the new terms is Facebook’s commitment to transparency and its willingness to put future changes that generate a lot of controversy up for a vote. You can find a link to its new ...

Facebook's new terms of service: Direct Democracy 2.0
Betanews — Facebook's new terms of service: Direct Democracy 2.0 In an apparent effort not to repeat last week's PR disaster, Mark Zuckerberg is literally asking users to fill in the blanks for him. By Tim Conneally | Published February 26, 2009, 4:34 PM In light of Facebook's recent Terms of Use conflicts , users' pages are now stamped with a message linked to a blog post from founder Mark Zuckerberg announcing suggested changes to how Facebook may be governed in the future. Two documents, called " Facebook Principles " and " Statement of Rights and Responsibilities " have been posted for user review and comment. These will not go ...

Facebook Management Has Lost Its Grip on Reality
ReadWriteWeb — ... made one of the most important announcements in the young company's history today. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of Facebook Principles. The proposal is made to Facebook's users, who will now have 30 days to read, comment and perhaps vote on the documents. ...

Facebook seeks users' input after privacy flap
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — ... blog. As Zuckerberg promised, users will be allowed to vote on the new policies, which include 10 principles "to make the world more open and transparent" and a six-page statement of ...

Open Thread: Thoughts on Facebook's New Constitution
ReadWriteWeb — ... Mark Zuckerberg promised to bring democracy to Facebook today with the announcement of a proposed statement of Facebook Principles and a document concerning ...

Facebook gets democratic - encourages voting on terms of service
Tech Digest — ... of said update, the site's been very careful about how it communicates with the public. On CEO Mark Zuckerberg's blog today, he's announced a new approach to how the site is run. First of all he's published two documents. There's a set of Facebook Principles, and a ...

Facebook open sources its Terms of Service
The Open Road — Given the ungainly hand that has held the rudder of Facebook's privacy policies--most recently with its alleged landgrab on user data--it's welcome to now see Facebook letting its users have considerable say in how the company handles their privacy. In a bold move, Facebook has "open sourced" its Terms of Service to allow users to help define them for the social-networking service, as Techcrunch reports. Facebook has proposed a new set of Facebook Principles, as well as a Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, and is inviting users to comment ...

More On Facebook's TOS
WebProNews Feed — After what can only be termed a kerfuffle last week over changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook has decided to take some pretty drastic steps to address the issue of content ownership on the social networking site: they’re soliciting input from their users. Asking for user feedback? Revolutionary, I know—but when it comes to setting the legal policies for one of the most popular sites in the world, somehow I don’t think direct democracy is the best way to determine IP rights. (Okay, I’m sure they’re not going the direct democracy route. Who does these days—I mean, really? Even Digg ...

Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Principles, Amazon Public Data, Times Open, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... made one of the most important announcements in the young company's history this week. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of Facebook Principles. The proposal is made to Facebook's users, who will now have 30 days to read, comment and perhaps vote on the documents. Looking just below the surface of this big news, though, there are a number of things going on that make absolutely no sense to us. Facebook's management appears to have lost its grip on reality. The population of Facebook dwarfs that of scores of countries in ...

Privacy group: Facebook principles still lacking
Macworld — by Grant Gross , IDG News Service Facebook's recent decision to back off proposed changes in its terms of service still leaves the social-media site with a "huge loophole" in privacy protections, a privacy group said Tuesday. Facebook's new proposed policies still allow the site to use everything users post, said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), a digital rights and privacy group. Facebook's proposed terms of service grant the site "a nonexclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly perform or display, distribute, modify, translate, and ...

Facebook's Site Governance Vote: A Massive Con?
ReadWriteWeb — ... A month and a half later, on April 12, Zuckerberg declared voting open and gave users the option to vote for either the current Terms of Use or the new Facebook Principles and ...