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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: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:49AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday April 12 2018, @12:49AM (#665666)

    Assuming the user agreement basically says that Facebook can do whatever it wants and all the users can do is yell and scream and stomp and kick about it, then their legal team is almost definitely patting themselves on the back about how cleverly they designed it.

    And, furthermore, unless these senators are actually planning on passing a law that forces Facebook to write a different sort of agreement, Mr Kennedy is engaged in theater, and his comments should be treated as such.

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