Facebook Invites More Comment on Policy Changes

21.04.2012
Facebook began notifying some of its members Friday night that it is reopening the comment period for changes in its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR).

In a message sent to more than 2000 members who "liked" the , where the social network fields comments about the SRR changes, the social network said:

"Based on your feedback, today we announced new revisions to the proposed changes to the SRR. Even where we did not make revisions, we have provided an explanation of the original change. We've re-opened the comment period for the new proposed SRR to provide you with another opportunity to review the proposed changes and give us feedback before we finalize them."

Members have until April 27 to comment on the latest version of the SRR.

One of the recent changes to the SRR strikes a section of the document that could have been interpreted as empowering Facebook to block the use of the service by selected users or activists. Those changes [] provided that:

"Some or all of Facebook's services and features may not be available to users in certain geographic areas.  We reserve the right to exclude or limit the provision of any service or feature in our sole discretion."