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Subtly but importantly: it's only OK to break your own things. People hate it coming from Facebook because they hold the world's most powerful trove of personal information, and a reccommendation engine that gets to nudge what a lot of people think is important. Similarly self-driving cars.

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That's your personal restriction on MFABT but Facebook MFABT is most definitely "bias towards speed". It has no "don't break other people's things" in it. And they behave like that. Correctly, in my opinion. Even if I've been at the receiving end having to implement against their Marketing API (which once released a 2-week deprecation notice).

Going around breaking other people's things is vandalism. The logic of smashed up bus shelters and tagged trains. It doesn't deserve respect, and if they do it too often they can expect a legal or regulatory challenge eventually. But the current crisis has undoubtedly put that back a couple of years.

You're not going to be able to mount a successful challenge against Facebook changing their APIs without sufficient warning.

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