It's in tune with most of the other startup blogs that hit the front page. HN is a great place for entrepreneurs to lobby for their co's.

This is a fair point, but I think its also fair for the parent to point the potential for bias out, given that some people may have perused the article quickly without realizing that its posted to the blog of a company with a large stake in the issue at hand.

But those are the ONLY people who are defending Faceplant - people with money invested in it. Everyone else is either apathetic or has left.

Maybe, but that doesn't determine whether Facebook is in the right or not.

If the brand is using Facebook, Facebook is in the right. It's their platform. They can do what they want. I don't understand why brands feel so entitled.

I don't follow.

If you are in my house, using my toilet, lift up the seat. If you refuse to do so I won't allow you in my bathroom again.

The toilet is the closest metaphor I could come up with for Facebook.