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Senator to Zuckerberg: 'Your User Agreement Sucks'

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

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for fyngyrz

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: 4, Interesting) by stretch611 on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:57PM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @09:57PM (#665572)

    It might be better than just lip service if our actual senators wrote laws to help the consumer.

    Like laws that don't allow binding arbitration agreements on essential services like telecommunications and banking.

    Or to give us legal standing [wikipedia.org] to sue companies when our personal information is stolen. (equifax, Blue Cross, countless others)

    But then again, leave it to Congress to get a sound bite they want instead of actual results. After all the sound bite makes their constituents sound like they are on their side while still only supporting the businesses that pay for their "re-election" funds.

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  • (Score: 1) by redneckmother on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:09PM

    by redneckmother (3597) on Thursday April 12 2018, @02:09PM (#665924)

    It might be better than just lip service if our actual senators wrote laws to help the consumer.

    Hell, US Senators simply cut 'n paste from stuph written by lobbyists (as do most other legislators in the US). Some can't even be bothered to edit the templates properly before submitting.

    How many House and Senate legislators were able to read (nevermind debate, which was disallowed by "leadership") the recent federal tax legislation prior to voting on it?

    Minor pet peave: treating "Customers" as "consumers" is part of the problem. I despise the term and the implied attitude.

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