Facebook got itself into another controversy over conflicting values with the recent . When Facebook changed its TOS many believed the social network was attempting to covertly claim ownership of users' personal property including photographs, videos, and personal messages. When Facebook's user base found out about the TOS change, they hit the site with a huge backlash, including the , eventually causing .

Let me be clear that I am not trying to say there is a moral equivalency between issues of genocide and privacy. I am only saying that time and again Facebook has been forced to back off from its policies due to poor decision making because it gave too much consideration to one priority while failing to honor other core values of its members including privacy, freedom of choice, protection for minorities and property rights -- not to mention common sense. Someday the site might figure it out, but for now Facebook is caught in a cycle of poor decision-making which leads to heavy criticism followed by a sharp reversal in policy. I suspect the Holocaust denial issue will play out similarly.

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