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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: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:31PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:31PM (#665591)

    Wrong.

    Legalese is actually almost its own language, but the reason it is so obtuse is that the wording is VERY specific such that small grammatical changes can drastically alter the meaning behind a contract. It actually has to be burdensome otherwise any lawyer could argue that their client interpreted the contract a different way and thus it is non-binding. It would be nice if they were required to provide a human readable version that covers 90% of the entire EULA.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:50PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:50PM (#665604) Journal

    Legalese is actually almost its own language

    Let's be grateful it isn't Java!

    You know, for all the precision 'Legalese' claims to have, it sure is open to wildly variable interpretations, the winner being the most expensive. What we have is accounting, not law.

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

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:03AM (#665640)

    They call it a code of laws. Keyword being code.

    You do need a secret decoder ring to decipher it. It can be found without a JDL. Hidden in a slew of paralegal frameworks.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:04AM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:04AM (#665642) Journal

    otherwise any lawyer could argue that their client interpreted the contract a different way and thus it is non-binding

    Easily solved.

    Include the boilerplate.
    And also include the Gloss.

    Written by the same company's people.

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