Facebook Wants to Sue Mark Zuckerberg

Posted on 23 December, 2011 | No Comments

Yes you have read the topic correctly, Facebook is actually threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg but not the Mark Zuckerberg you are thinking of. An Israeli entrepreneur who recently took the facebook founder’s name, Rotem Guez legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg on December 7, 2011.

Zuckerberg II launched the website called Like Store which sells companies Likes for their brand pages which Facebook deems unethical and threatens to sue. According to his website, MarkZuckerbergOfficial.com, He initially filed a lawsuit against Facebook in January 2011 after the social networking site refused to give him access to his profile, which they had shut down and that’s where everything started. Later than year he changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook has threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg, an Israeli entrepreneur who recently took the social network founder’s name. The new Zuckerberg, born Rotem Guez, legally changed his name Dec. 7.

Zuckerberg II’s website, MarkZuckerbergOfficial.com, states that he first filed a lawsuit against Facebook in January, after the social network refused to give him access to his profile, which it had shut down.

Zuckerberg (all further mentions refer to the Israeli entrepreneur) co-founded Like Store, a social marketing company, which sells companies Likes for their brand pages. The site states (translated), “Are you sad no one’s visiting your Facebook Page? We have a solution! Need 1,000 Likes? We’ll get them for you. Need 5,000 Likes? We’ll get them for you. Need 10,000 Likes? We’ll get them for you.”

In September, Facebook’s law firm Perkins Coie threatened to sue against Zuckerberg, claiming the Like Store violated the social network’s Terms of Service, by selling brands fans. The threat instructed Zuckerberg to shut his company and never return to the social network for any reason.

Zuckerberg officially changed his name Dec. 7. In the below video of his trip to the Interior Ministry to make the switch official, he says he plans to change his family’s names as well. One week later, Facebook again threatened a lawsuit against Zuckerberg’s still existing Like Store. Little did they know, they were threatening someone with the name of their own founder.

[via Mashable]

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