Facebook: Our Terms of Service Are Less Confusing Now. (cnet.com) 62
Facebook says it wants to give people "clear, simple explanations" about how its business works and how it uses your personal information. From a report: In a blog post on Thursday, Facebook outlined updates to its terms of service intended to clarify how the company makes money and to explain users' rights on the site. The social network said it's adding more information to its terms of service on how it makes money -- including an explanation that points out it doesn't charge for its products because it sells ads -- and what happens when it removes content that violates its policies. Facebook is also updating its terms around intellectual property rights and what happens when you delete content from the social network. Mind you, Facebook said it's not actually changing any of its policies, just trying to explain them more clearly.
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#1 - you buy a phone with the Facebook bloatware app that can't be removed and poses a security risk regardless of being upgraded or not.
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no no you don't understand! He never said that, or he was joking, or it was taken out of context. It's a moot point! Look: he's told us millions of times he values our privacy, and just wants to connect people around the world. That should be enough for anyone. Seriously, he means well, and he's a good kid.
They stilll don't get IT (Score:1)
It's not that I need to be further told how you're going to abuse me, I need you to STOP ABUSING PERIOD. Why is that so friggin hard to understand?
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I can do that! (Score:4, Interesting)
"We will use your personal information in any way that makes us money as long as they are not too illegal. You get no say in the matter and even if you do not even have an account, we will do the same. If you have any questions, comments or complaints, get fucked."
There, was not so hard, was it?
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and don't forget to add (Score:3)
1. Shadow Banning: where we ban you by making sure no one can find our post, but not tell you we did this.
2. Redirect Ban: where we offer links to many correct thinking responses to that will drown out yours
3. Complete Ban: Where we simply do not let you on our platform, because we don't understand publisher/platform laws.
"We will us
Dying on the vine (Score:2)
Hip Cats Use Insta (Score:1)
Yeah, yeah. Everyone who is anyone has already moved on from Facebook to Instagram. You're right.
Who is it that owns Instagram again? Who paid $1 billion for Instagram despite having a competing app that could have juts as easily squeezed Instagram out of the market? I said it was utter stupidity at the time, now it's clear that it was genius.
Now there is soon to be Libra...
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When was the last time you heard anyone under the age of 30 talk about doing anything on Facebook?
It would seem that Facebook is only used by middle-aged farts. Old farts never used it to begin with, and the younger generations regard it as stuff for geezers.
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Yeah okay (Score:2)
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I followed one band on Facebook for a few years. It was literally the only reason I was on it at all. Then I "deleted" my account. Funny thing, a month later I drunkenly forgot I had deleted my account and logged back in. Everything was still there, and there wasn't even a warning that this account had been deleted. Just *BAM* right back to active. I deleted it again the next morning and haven't been back, but that always sticks in my head.
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even more clear (Score:4, Informative)
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb f*cks
just substitute "Dumb f*cks" with "user" in the ELU and that's exactly what you are if you trust FB.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
still too long (Score:2)
that's still too long.
The new and old can both be distilled to: "screw you. All your data are belong to us. And your little dog, too!"
hawk
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I do like that it's shorter (Score:2)
But I'm disturbed that they chose to rewrite it as
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
Re: I do like that it's shorter (Score:1)
The large print giveth... (Score:2)
and the small print taketh away.
It isn't what they say that counts, it's what they don't say.
Dump Facebook, Twitter, and all other forms of antisocial media.
has facebook included (Score:2)
Facebook Terms of Service (Score:2)
Facebook Terms of Service: "ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US."
(Dang all-caps filter errors....)
It now says simply (Score:1)
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I should have read before posting mine.
Distilled Facebook TOS (Score:2)
"You are the product, and we own you."
Our TOS less confusing... (Score:2)
make it easy (Score:2)
1. Hello user. We're providing this internet site for free. Since you're not a paying customer, you have no customer rights.
2. We're gonna harvest every iota of your data and do whatever we want with it.
3. We can make whatever privacy rules we want, and ignore or violate them at will.
4. We won't tell you when we decide to ignore our own rules. See point 1.
5. We will will tell you that we care about your privacy. We don't. See point 1.
6. We're a company that makes most o
Censorship and (Score:2)
Facebook: Our Terms of Service Are Less Confusing (Score:2)
Facebook: Our Terms of Service Are Less Confusing Now.
Easy: All your data are belong to us.
Also, you may view a little of OUR data that you happened to generate. Isn't our deal nice? Pray we don't alter it any further.
Their "community rules" stil doesn't make sense (Score:2)
They ban "hate speech" and define it (among others) as negative generalizations based on (among others) religion, and they ban "promotion of criminal activity", but if you post about Islamic terrorism (a very definite criminal activity) and how Islam itself promotes it, it gets flagged as "hate speech"?
So if a bunch of people that happens to share the same skin color, religion etc. perform criminal activity, you cannot mention it or criticize it without getting flagged, but it you flag their activities, Fac