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posted by fyngyrz on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-really-zucks dept.

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Senator Kennedy of Louisiana confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the transparency of the social media company's policies on Tuesday.

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"I'm going to suggest you go home and rewrite it, and tell your $1,200 dollar and[sic] hour lawyer...you want it written in English not Swahili, so the average American user can understand," Kennedy said.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/senator-to-zuckerberg-your-user-agreement-sucks.html


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:54PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:54PM (#665569)

    Mod this comment redundant, but who forced you to register a facebook account, giving up all your personal info?

    Amazon.com, I can understand because you buy shit from them, but why are you on facebook?

    I know why. Because you are morons.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:18PM (1 child)

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:18PM (#665585) Homepage Journal

    There's probably data about you on Farcebook too dude. They don't let a little thing like the need to register get in the way of profiling anyone they can grab data on.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:09AM (#665643)

      Best way to Facebook is to allow your whole family to use the same account. Via proxies. And only post goatse pics to know which family member is who.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:37PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:37PM (#665594)

    What a brilliant point! Only a totally smart person would have thought to do that! Oh but Amazon is OK? Because you buy shit from them that you can get pretty much anywhere? Because you're a lazy judgmental fuck trying to ignore the world's problems by pretending you're above it because SMART!?! Not only are you redundant but you're naive as fuck.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:04PM (7 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:04PM (#665611) Journal

      Because you buy shit from them that you can get pretty much anywhere?

      I have no idea what Anonymous Coward's address is. But, out here in Backwoods, Nowhere, USA, much of the stuff I can purchase on the internet is simply not available. Those things that I can get through online retailers which is also available locally are more expensive. Sometimes, the item is *only* 50% more expensive, sometimes, 500% more expensive, sometimes more. We might argue that if I shopped locally, I would be supporting local vendors and businessmen - except that most downtown areas are all but deserted, having been replaced by WalMart. I prefer to support those people who can compete with WalMart.

      Don't make any presumptions about what is available in any area in which you do not live.

      You may also argue that if I am willing to drive further from home, I might find what I am looking for. That argument fails, because the vendors in the nearest larger city often drop items, by reason of low sales volume.

      In reality, some of what you can get through Amazon is simply NOT available "pretty much anywhere". Well - I could be wrong. If AC owns his own private jet, and he can fly to Melbourne, or London, or Paris, or Hong Kong on a whim, then yeah, he can buy stuff "pretty much anywhere".

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:52PM (3 children)

        by Arik (4543) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @11:52PM (#665633) Journal
        I find myself in a similar situation, but I evaluate walmart as a lesser evil than amazon. I don't have to run arbitrary code from walmart to buy from them, or indicate acceptance to some sort of ridiculous EULA. If they have what I want, I can hand them cash and walk out with it.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:58AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:58AM (#665671)

          There is a Walmart near me. I often order on the web, use "free ship to store" and pay from a PayPal balance. I don't recall having to click through any special Walmart EULA (but it might have slipped by me?) When I pick up the item, I have the clerk open it for me and if there is a problem, they take it back and credit my PayPal account on the spot. If there is excess packaging (large cardboard box), the clerk will take that too.

          I won't knowingly use Amazon, ever since they lied and said that our engineering reference book was "out of print". It's never been out of print, our small publisher refused to knuckle under to the Amazon demand for ridiculous terms...(and other similar dirty tricks that are still ongoing). Back then, when Amazon said "out of print" it killed a number of sales because the buyers believed another lie, that "Amazon has every book". A couple of people even dug up my email address and pleaded with me to sell them a copy if I had any remaining stock (I sent them to the publisher where the price was lower than what Amazon listed).

          Recently I've ordered from eBay and been surprised when an Amazon box appeared--it seems that some eBay shops are sub-contracting fulfillment to Amazon.

          • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:14AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:14AM (#665723)

            Ah, ok, Amazon is fair game because they hurt *you*. Zuckerbook isn't because they haven't hurt *you*. Are you a solipsist?

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Acabatag on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:36AM (1 child)

        by Acabatag (2885) on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:36AM (#665662)

        You just described the Sears Catalog as a shopping option for many rural people 100 years ago.

        • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Thursday April 12 2018, @06:45PM

          by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 12 2018, @06:45PM (#666100) Journal

          You just described the Sears Catalog as a shopping option for many rural people 100 years ago.

          A tablet or notebook computer can be reused many times, but regardless of the software, they just do not feel right in trying to be a complete replacement [farmcollector.com] for the Sears Catalog.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:13PM (#665964)

        It was more a point about giving a pass to one giant surveillance machine and not another. If you can't get something at the local store then find a online shop that isn't Amazon, otherwise total hypocrisy / ignorance.