Facebook TOS vote a con trick?

http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-564312

by knightinblue • 17 years ago

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jballanc• 17 years ago

Facebook is a website, not a state or any other sort of political entity. Why people seem to feel that they have "rights" when it comes to facebook is beyond me. I wonder if those complaining are the same people that keep yelling about bailout money and saying that "the market should correct itself"?

Funny how market correcting forces don't seem so pleasant when you're caught in the middle of one of those corrections...

knightinblue3• 17 years ago

You're comparing apples to oranges.

Facebook is a website that hosts your personal info. Whats more, they want to store that info for as long as they want and use it for whatever they want, besides making money.

If facebook was a site that didn't store any info about you, then they can do whatever they want and I'd be willing to bet that nobody would care. But it's not. So yes, we do have rights when it comes to this stuff. Which was explicitly displayed when people began to close their facebook accounts.

tptacek2• 17 years ago

They didn't take your personal info. You gave it to them, because you like what they do with it. I'm sorry, but I think you're going to find that you don't actually have "rights" here.

ivank• 17 years ago

After voting, I see:

"More than 280,597 people have voted.

73.16% (for the proposed documents)

26.84% (for the existing documents)"

keopi• 17 years ago

What percentage of total users does that add up to?

tlrobinson• 17 years ago

Assuming 200 million active users, 0.14%

(http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics)

Facebook TOS vote a con trick?

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