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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:

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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: 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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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..