I'm on vacation, but this is important: Facebook is trying to use legal pressure to stop 02138 magazine from disseminating information about Facebook's origins.
Facebook Inc. filed two legal motions aiming to force an independent magazine to take down from its Web site documents related to a suit over the social-networking site's origins.
Early yesterday, Facebook's lawyers notified 02138, an independent magazine geared at Harvard alumni, of two separate emergency motions seeking the removal of the documents from its online edition.
The documents are still available online here, but Facebook has a lot of lawyers. If you're interested, read these things now. We believe that we have a legal right to post them online and that you have a legal right to read them. Meantime, spread the word that a company which plans to collect and sell personal information about 50 million people doesn't want one magazine to conduct legitimate reporting about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg....
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