The Angry Drunk

Yeah, I know, it’s not exactly a shock­ing rev­e­la­tion; but every now and then Scoble comes up with some­thing that makes even a bat­tle hard­ened vet­eran of the New Media Douchewars like myself sit back, shake my head, and go “huwazat?!?”

In this par­tic­u­lar instance it’s a bit that Robert wrote regard­ing the Facebook Terms of Service Copyright Landgrab. Linky here. Here’s a quick review, for those of you with actual things to do with your time. Recently Facebook posted a change to their Terms of Service that said, in essence, you are giv­ing them a per­ma­nent and irrev­o­ca­ble license to all con­tent that you post to Facebook and that Facebook can effec­tively use that con­tent in any way they see fit.

I’m not going to com­ment on the specifics of the sit­u­a­tion; mainly because I don’t care, and this sort of crap is exactly what I expect of an out­fit like Facebook. But I am going to com­ment on Robert’s reac­tion; because I think that reac­tion is a prime exam­ple of what most of us already know: Robert Scoble is com­pletely out of touch with reality.

Robert’s reac­tion can be summed up in one quote from the article:

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