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Exclusive- TechCrunch has learned that the alleged violation of policy, Facebook has resulted in the victim's high-profile: Netlog, a tangible European social network, got banned from Facebook Platform earlier this week.
Netlog is not widely known in the United States, but has been around for more than ten years and approves 80 million users, most of them in Europe and the Middle East. According to parent company media Facebook provided no explanation of what specific rules they broke, or how.
Nevertheless, approximately 1.5 million users using Facebook connect to sign up for Netlog to login under the ban, which came into effect last Tuesday, we are told.
Netlog initially reported that they violate a whole new element to the Facebook platform policy, quietly was added about 2 weeks ago – and provides that Facebook apps cannot associate, promotion, integration, or redirect any application on any competing social platform – but it seems to have been a painful communication error on Facebook's part.
In fact, Netlog has never launched a Canvas application on Facebook platform, but is considering building one – have now been abandoned these plans, for obvious reasons.
Facebook confirms that the error occurred in the initial reports of sudden ban, but that they were already with Netlog on the real reasons they got banned.
Asked what those causes, Facebook will only say:
Netlog takes extensive measures to access internal Facebook API and deliberately threatened the alleged limitations of our platform. We take appropriate and necessary measures for the protection of people on Facebook.
Meanwhile, the media, said that he was not an intentional offence, but that they look at this issue before commenting further. Because Facebook originally said that Netlog got banned for linking to the competing social media platform actually considered a complaint against Facebook with the European Commission, through its "anti-competitive acts".
A serious crisis and PR shitstorm averted.
For your further reading pleasure:
It's the world of Facebook ... Other social networks just to live in it (June 2011)
AD .LY against Facebook: something doesn't add up (April 2011)
Zynga Gunning for war against Facebook from Zynga live (May 2010)
Facebook defends his turf, sues Power.com (January 2009)
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