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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.

[...]

"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, @01:13PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:13PM (#665893)

    Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:

    Jim Crow laws—sometimes, as in Florida, part of state constitutions—mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks…

    These Jim Crow laws revived principles of the 1865 and 1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.

    Segregation was a government program.

  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:50PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday April 12 2018, @03:50PM (#665977)

    There are businesses that racially segregate right now to the degree the law allows. For instance, I had one boss that announced to the entire open-plan office that he was refusing to hire somebody because he wasn't white (I left shortly thereafter). Had I had that candidate's contact information, I would have told him why he didn't get the job, and would have gladly testified against that particular employer in court. In businesses with less than 25 employees, that sort of thing is much harder to catch because they don't have to be Equal Opportunity Employers.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:13PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday April 12 2018, @04:13PM (#665995)

    Another followup: Yes, if you look up the laws that created segregation, you're going to find the laws that created segregation. However, you won't find the private actions that created segregation, because that's outside the scope of that article. One of the most famous protests of the Civil Rights Movement was about a private policy: the Greensboro sit-ins [wikipedia.org].

    I know you want to believe that government is the root of all evil. But in this case, it's demonstrably not.

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