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Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change
Baumannās experience could have a chilling effect on companiesā and individualsā willingness to participate on social media for fear of having their online identity arbitrarily seized. āFacebook has essentially unfettered discretion to appropriate peopleās Instagram user names,ā Rebecca Giblin, director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia at the University of Melbourne, told The … ā¶
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Facebook’s double standards
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