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The plot thickens! Turns out that doesn't actually own the name Meta because it belongs to another company that's currently in stealth mode.

That didn't seem to stop Facebook from publicly announcing the name change and branding, quite the Zuck move. :blobpopcorn:

Meta (the real one) have posted a public letter about this on their front page. I'm linking the Archive copy because the front page will be eventually replaced by an actual website:
🔗 web.archive.org/web/2021110321

@polychrome I saw a post on the /r/gamedev subreddit about something similar. A game studio called Metawe that got their Facebook page taken down for "impersonation" (apparently they've had the name trademarked since 2017)

old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comme

@polychrome saw that, but theres as far as i could find zero evidence of its existance before facebook shit. seems moreso that it's probably a troll. now if anyone can file copyright issues its neal stephenson

@polychrome I am going to call anything thai is even shittier than a "dick move" a "Zuck move" going forward

@polychrome @msh and for the worst, a “Zuck-dick move”

@polychrome I mean where did you come across that link. If it was a place with discussion I would like to see the discussion.

@faun me too, it's been awhile since I've posted it and I'm not on my PC. There might be some discussion on this by now.

@polychrome @mtm I want to believe.

Apparently the nate skullik turned up and expressed willingness to talk about the technology meta company are supposedly making, no one engaged him though news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

For me, them winning in court then never releasing a product would actually be the ideal outcome, the sacred word would be settle in the ground, safe from the profanity of use

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