Bush lawyer behind Facebook blunder

Bush may be out of office, but his cronies are scattered far and wide - like the old Contac commercial that showed the capsule releasing tiny balls.

The social networking website Facebook has been embattled lately because it introduced new terms of service forcing users to surrender intellectual property rights over their own content.

In 1999, when Yahoo! took over GeoCities and began decimating it, one of Yahoo!'s first acts was adding a similar provision to the GeoCities terms of service. The protest was so overpowering that Yahoo! was forced to relent.

I guess someone at Facebook didn't learn a lesson from that calamity.

Who could possibly be stupid enough not to learn from Yahoo!'s dumb mistake? Well, Facebook's new policy was masterminded by one Ted Ullvot - who used to work for the Bush regime under that master of matchbook law, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The uproar is so great over Facebook's rule change that it too is being rescinded.

Hopefully, Facebook learned its own lesson: When you see that someone has a connection to Bush, keep your distance at all costs.

(Source: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Former-Bush-Lawyer-Behind-by-Rob-Kall-090218-92.html)