Facebook 脅すs to 告訴する 21-year-old student who created a website poking fun at 使用者s who didn't know what to do when the social マスコミ 場所／位置 衝突，墜落d

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Social マスコミ 巨大（な） and multi-billion dollar 会社／団体 Facebook is 脅すing to 告訴する a Sydney university student.

Self-布告するd programmer and entrepreneur Elliot 小島s, 21, created a small joke website when Facebook 衝突，墜落d for two hours on September 28.

He is 辞退するing to give in to a request from Facebook's 合法的な department and 除去する the website.?

The computer science student bought the domain 'whilefacebookwasdown.com' as part of a 'fun, 害のない coding 事業／計画（する）' ? but he was 絶対 stunned at what happened next.

'I woke up to an email from Facebook this morning 脅すing to とじ込み／提出する 合法的な 活動／戦闘 against me,' Mr 小島s told Daily Mail Australia.

'They're 需要・要求するing I の近くに my website 負かす／撃墜する.'

Social マスコミ 巨大（な） and multi-billion dollar 会社／団体 Facebook is 脅すing to 告訴する Sydney university student Elliot 小島s (権利)

The computer science student bought the domain 'whilefacebookwasdown.com' as part of a 'fun, 害のない coding 事業／計画（する）' ? but he was 絶対 stunned when Facebook '脅すd 合法的な 活動／戦闘'

Elliot 小島s was shocked when he received an email 需要・要求するing he stops using the domain as it is a 'Trademark 違反' of the Facebook brand?

Mr 小島s says he created his website to make fun of how 1.5 billion Facebook 使用者s 'didn't know what to do with themselves' when the incredibly popular social マスコミ 場所／位置 衝突，墜落d

Mr 小島s says he created his website to make fun of how 1.5 b illion Facebook 使用者s 'didn't know what to do with themselves' when the incredibly popular social マスコミ 場所／位置 衝突，墜落d.

However, he received an email from the 合法的な department at Facebook, Inc. regarding the '違反 of Facebook's trademark', ordering the 即座の 終結 of Mr 小島's domain.

'We were 関心d when we learned of your 登録 and use of whilefacebookwasdown.com,' the email said.

The company says the website would 混乱させる Internet 使用者s who would not be able to understand whether or not the website was connected to the 公式の／役人 Facebook brand.

Mr 小島s (centre) is baffled that the social マスコミ 巨大（な） would feel 脅すd by his website

The 21-year-old Sydney entrepreneur believes it is hypocritical that Facebook takes 問題／発行する with a computer program created by a university student, given that is how the social マスコミ 場所／位置 （機の）カム into 存在

Elliot 小島s (left) is 辞退するing to 除去する his website にもかかわらず a 合法的な email from Facebook, Inc.

'To 避ける 消費者 混乱 and 害（を与える） to the Facebook brand, we must 主張する that you stop using the 指名する and domain whilefacebookwasdown.com and 無能にする any 場所／位置 利用できる at that 演説（する）／住所,' the email continued.

'Please 確認する in 令状ing that you will agree to 解決する the 事柄 as requested.'?

Mr 小島s is baffled that the social マスコミ 巨大（な） would feel 脅すd by his website.

'I think it's hyper 極度の慎重さを要する. I'm not 感情を害する／違反するing anyone,' said Mr 小島s.

'The website is 害のない and I don't 計画（する） on taking it 負かす／撃墜する soon.'?

Mr 小島s sent a very sarcastic reply to Facebook, 辞退するing to 除去する his website. He photoshopped an image from a scene in the film 'The Social 網状組織' which tells the story of how Mr Zuckerberg created Facebook

Mr 小島s believes it is hypocritical of Facebook to take 活動／戦闘 given the origin story of the Social マスコミ 場所／位置 and the similarities between himself and Facebook 創立者, 示す Zuckerberg.

'Uni students buildings things quickly that larger 力／強力にするs don't 認可する of should be something I'd 推定する／予想する Facebook and 特に its 創立者, 示す Zuckerberg, to understand,' said Mr 小島s.

Mr Zuckerberg 開始する，打ち上げるd Facebook while he was a Harvard University student and was a 億万長者 by the time he was 23.

However, he enjoyed a 議論の的になる rise to the 最高の，を越す ? as 文書d by the 2010 film 'The Social 網状組織' ? and settled a 訴訟 for $20 million in 2008.

'I'm not really sure what 害（を与える） (my website) is doing, its just a bit of fun. I love Facebook and I'm surprised they don't have more of a sense of humour about these things,' said Mr 小島s.

The website 'While Facebook Was 負かす／撃墜する' gets people to 階級 what they did for two hours without social マスコミ

'I guess it's the 控訴s calling the 発射s now they're so big.'

The 21-year-old replied to the email - 辞退するing to 強いる to Facebook's request with a cheeky photoshopped image, made to parody 'The Social 網状組織'.?

However, Mr 小島s is using the 適切な時期 to 争う for a possible 職業 適切な時期 with the company.

'Maybe they just 港／避難所't got around to 人物／姿／数字ing out whether a website is tongue in cheek or not. I'd be happy to 人物／姿／数字 that out for my next coding 事業／計画（する） if they like? If they're 利益／興味d they know where to find me ? they have my email after all.'?

Mr 小島s pitching another one of his websites - a s tartup called Beyond The Pitch, which is focussed on the 不景気 epedemic in entrepreneurs

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