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SUICIDE NOTE 2.0 from Worm in Rotterdam: Facebook blocks WORM because of Suicide Machine
To our great sorrow Facebook Inc.. decided that, WORM, the producer of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, is to be excommunicated from Facebook.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is on initiated and independently developed by Moddr_, on the WORM media lab. Facebook wants to get Suicide Machine to its knees by targeting WORM.

The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine allows users of commit ’social network suicide “on Facebook among other social networks . Facebook is threatening legal action to stop the machine and has now demanded that WORM (WORM_Rotterdam) immediately remove his Facebook profile.

Facebook claims that the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine has violated its rules and thereby has forfeited the WORM rights to to use the platform any longer, says the U.S. company, through its lawyer. WORM does not wants this fight with Facebook. The idea behind Web 2.0 was because Suicide Machine makes clear that users of social networking sites should have control of their data.

This is a control Facebook does not want to allow and the company will not even enter a debate about the issue. This leaves us no choice but to Worm itself to commit Facebook suicide. The conditions of Facebook does not give us any space.

WORM deeply regrets the situation. The Suicide Machine Web 2.0 was not intended as a tool against Facebook, but as a tool for people who for whatever reason, would want to terminate their live online. Facebook wants the access to all their service, and thus all access to the personal data of their users, to be done through their own ‘connect’ platform goes. Facebook itself wants to determine the rules and change them as it sees fit.

The excommunication of WORM shows that net neutrality and freedom of information in many social network sites is an illusion. Not only is people are not allowed to (automated) defriend even when something is made that companies do not like, they may decide to exclude their unwelcome users. Facebook shows that only freedom the user has is the one Facebook gives.

Facebook claims all rights. WORM is no longer live in this 2.0 world. We therefore take leave of our many ‘friends’.

You can now see through our online suicide www.SuicideMachine.org.

No flowers, no speeches.

suicide@moddr.net /publiciteit@wormweb.nl / 0104767832
www.moddr.net / www.wormweb.nl