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What about where it says "Facebook explicitly revoked authorization for any access"? Doesn't that imply that the exact actions they made don't matter?


That phrase doesn't actually appear in the summary, and not sure what was actually in the C&D since it was not linked (and I haven't bothered to look for it).

My point was more that the Author did not really give a clear picture of what Powers was doing, which grants a bit more insight as to why FB even started the suit. I'm not sure that the summary or the article are very clear on what was forbidden and are using some lay person terms. (e.g., while the machines being accessed when you get at facebook are computers, we'd likely use a more precise term, like server, page, API, platform, etc.)

The summary misses a few key elements to make sense to us by and large, and the use of lay person teminology is causing confusion, and the article exacerbates this.




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