6/1: Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote – This shows Facebook still has thorns in its side, though an inclusive vote allowed Facebook to implement changes.
But it took direct action from EU privacy campaigner Max Schrems to force Facebook to put the proposed changes up for a worldwide vote — by mobilizing opinion online and triggering a long standing Facebook policy governance clause (which the company couldn't exactly ignore, even as the structure of the clause essentially made it impossible for a user vote to block the changes).
The European activists "europe-v-facebook.org", led by a group of Austrian students, say that they have reached the 7,000-comment 7,000-commenta Facebook privacy proposal, firsthresholdlast week, which wonld force the company to take the revisions to a worldwide vote.
Viewers worldwide voted through phone lines, the Internet, focus groups, and consumer promotions for their favorite short cartoons; the first of 16 animated shorts to earn that vote of approval was Dexter's Laboratory.
In 2006, British Hit Singles & Albums and NME organised a poll of which, 40,000 people worldwide voted for the 100 best albums ever and Ten was placed at number 66 on the list.
In an worldwide online vote, fans can choose to get rid of the likes of the thimble or the shoe – objects crafted in the fashion of items familiar to people in 1930s America – while selecting a replacement.
The poll, which resides on HP's internal computer network, allows employees worldwide to vote anonymously and was posted on Nov. 14.
In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best albums of all time, and NME organized a poll of 40,000 people worldwide who voted for the 100 best albums ever, on which Kid A was placed at number 95.
On Sunday, 2,305,290 people voted at 1,317 polling stations across Catalonia, in addition to 13,573 Catalans who voted worldwide.
