Seems like normal competitive business practices. On Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 4:13 PM jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/05/facebook-internal-emails-documents-mark-zuckerberg-uk-parliament/ > > [partial quote follows] > > As expected, the UK Parliament has released a set of internal Facebook > emails that were seized as part of its investigation into the company's > data-privacy practices. The 250-page document, which includes conversations > between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other high-level executives, is a > window into the social media giant's ruthless thinking from 2012 to 2015 -- > a period of time when it was growing (and collecting user data) at an > unstoppable rate. While Facebook was white-listing companies like Airbnb, > Lyft and Netflix to get special access to people's information in 2013, it > went out of its way to block competitors such as Vine from using its tools. > > When Twitter launched Vine, the app had access to Facebook's Friends API, > which let Vine users see which of their Facebook friends were using the > then-new app. But after approval from Zuckerberg himself, that access was > cut off. "Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their [Vine's] > Friends API access today. We've prepared reactive PR, and I will let Jana > know our decision," Justin Osofsky, Facebook's vice president of global > operations and media partnerships, said in an email at the time. Zuckerberg > replied, "Yup, go for it." > [end of partial quote] > > Jim Bell >
