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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:41AM (#665727)

    the EULAs for every major piece of software, and at least the Windows 10 EULA, if not others.

    Maybe now that attention has been drawn to the issue they can look at these licenses and go 'Oh shit, this is not very free market capitalism friendly, when we let these companies become monopolies with this much lattitude in their take it or leave it contracts for software that for many people is a necessity to access the ecosystem, when alternatives cannot.'