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posted by janrinok on Sunday May 26 2019, @07:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the fit-of-pique dept.

CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Services

CrossFit has announced in a press release that it has closed its Facebook accounts as of May 22, 2019. CrossFit is an almost 20 year old branded fitness regimen. Its press release goes into quite a bit of detail into the problems caused by use of Facebook and its subsidiary services such as Instagram and enumerates eight specific examples of deal-breakers.

Earlier on SN:
Facebook Still Tracks You After You Deactivate Your Account (2019)
Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. (2018)
Why No One Trusts Facebook (2014)

CrossFit, Inc. Suspends Use of Facebook and Associated Properties After Unexplained Ban

CrossFit, Inc. defends relentlessly the right of its affiliates, trainers, and athletes to practice CrossFit, build voluntary CrossFit associations and businesses, and speak openly and freely about the ideas and principles that animate our views of exercise, nutrition, and health. This website—and, until recently, CrossFit's Facebook and Instagram accounts—has long catalogued CrossFit's tireless defense of its community against overreaching governments, malicious competitors, and corrupt academic organizations.

Recently, Facebook deleted without warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan user group. The group has 1.65 million users who post testimonials and other information regarding the efficacy of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. While the site has subsequently been reinstated (also without warning or explanation), Facebook's action should give any serious person reason to pause, especially those of us engaged in activities contrary to prevailing opinion.

https://www.crossfit.com/battles/crossfit-suspends-facebook-instagram


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by jmorris on Monday May 27 2019, @01:06AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Monday May 27 2019, @01:06AM (#848050)

    iOS is worse, it explicitly says in the terms of service that 3rd party developers are not permitted to compete with Apple. So you bust your ass and if you fail it is all on you, but if you succeed and prove a large untapped market exists for some new application category you only get to reap profits until Apple notices and enters the space with a competitor. Then they, legally and quite by the book, drop your competing app and replace it with their own. Or even if they don;t care to compete they can just drop any app for any reason at all, or without even stating a reason. But no matter, there is no appeal process and when you gave them the hundie to buy the right to develop you already agreed, in a real and legally binding way, (since actual money changed hands, vs a typical EULA) that you understand these rules and that you agreed in advance not to take them to court if you later decide you don't like it.

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