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		bsder on March 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've Just Liberated My Modules > They have the responsibility to defend their trademark, otherwise it could be abused by a rival claiming they did not adequately defend it. Agreed, but you can do this without pissing off everybody in the universe. http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-daniels-wrote-what-has-t... Before, I had no idea who kik was. Now, I know them as a bunch of jerks. Big fail for a "social media" company.

antihero on March 23, 2016 [–]

Yeah but literally nobody is going to care about this outside the programmer community, and we're not their target audience.

tobltobs on March 23, 2016 | [–]

"Are you a developer? Kik has open-sourced tools and libraries to help you create great web experiences ..."

This is on their homepage. They want developer to use their Pedo enabler API.

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