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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: 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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