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Either side can produce the evidence, weigh each other's evidence, make their arguments before the court, and ultimately the court makes a decision.... or they decide they're both fucked in certain ways and settle. the way it works, either side can try to make their case... in principle makes sense, the only problem is it takes a lot of time.
in this case, though, it's not immediately obvious it's bullshit... imho
Yup, if someone threatens to sue you for bullshit, you can sue them, in your own jurisdiction, for declaratory judgement. That way you can save yourself from getting embroiled in a multi-year bullshit case in someone else's jurisdiction, and get a quicker ruling (declaratory judgement) that the threat is indeed bullshit.
It's a pain and hidden away-- just an after thought. They could make it a lot more obvious and a lot easier to use. They've got the resources to do better than what they've done with it.
What's their address?
Bullshit. There are other ways they could have filtered Newsfeed- it didn't have to be an algorithm. People, fans, pages could do it themselves if only the platform enabled them.
Facebook is screwing page owners and real fans of the page over - and it's been going on for years. Like used to be "Become a Fan". And a page owner used to be able "Send updates" to fans. There are lots of us who had tens of thousands of fans, who actually were fans. But "Fan" became "Like" and "Send updates" disappeared, and slowly posts that were shown to most of your fans were now showed to almost none. Through all these changes and monetization products Facebook has diluted it all to the point it's become useless.
Reasonable? No way.
Let's not forget the intent of this article- Facebook is screwing page owners and real fans of the page over. Like used to be "Become a Fan". And a page owner used to be able "Send updates" to fans. There are lots of us who had tens of thousands of fans, who actually were fans. But "Fan" became "Like" and "Send updates" disappeared, and slowly posts that were shown to most of your fans were now showed to almost none. Through all these changes and monetization products Facebook has diluted it all to the point it's become useless.
They're hacks and cheats. There are other ways they could have done this.