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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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Facebook: Our Terms of Service Are Less Confusing Now.

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  • by Anonymous Coward

    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?

  • I can do that! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:24PM (#58835672)

    "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?

    • by xlsior ( 524145 )
      Or the short-short version: "Bend over"
    • You are free to post anything you like, just so long it is agrees with our ideology. For those who feel they can not comply, we offer a wide range of services including:

      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
  • When was the last time you heard anyone under the age of 30 talk about doing anything on Facebook? I predict that within 10 years people will be openly mocked for still using the platform.
    • by Anonymous Coward

      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...

    • 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.

    • Using Instagram is still using Facebook.
  • I am glad I haven't been a Facecrook user since 2017. I am ashamed to even admit that I WAS a user.
    • by Anonymous Coward

      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.

  • Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • even more clear (Score:4, Informative)

    by sdinfoserv ( 1793266 ) on Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:41PM (#58835778)
    Let's make this really clear so everyone can under FB policy from Zuckerbergs own words in a 2003 interview
    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
  • But I'm disturbed that they chose to rewrite it as

    ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

  • 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.

  • that they are a bunch of lying thieving criminals selling your personal information to other lying thieving criminals???
  • Facebook Terms of Service: "ALL YOUR DATA ARE BELONG TO US."

    (Dang all-caps filter errors....)

  • "You are the product, and we own you."

  • But yeah, we're still as evil as ever.
  • Here, I'll make it easy:

    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
  • Reporting users to their governments.
  • 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.

  • 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

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