Amazing how you can talk so coherently with that corporate dick taking up so much space in your mouth.

How dare the average person not have the time or attention span to read a 28 page document in legalese that explains what exactly they're doing

It's not like purposefully dense and overlong TOS is a known strategy to hide bullshit that later gets thrown out in court or anything

The button to install a paid app literally says BUY. If that doesn't mean purchase I don't what else it could mean.

OK but piracy isn't stealing it is basically a harmless free copy. The issue here is corporations want to have their cake and eat it too, but to prohibit us all from either having or eating any cake ever. Corpos like that have zero right to my consideration or care.

Yeah, okay, except the iTunes and Facebook TOSes are longer than King Lear. Eventually a judge nullified a TOS on the basis that no-one ever reads those anyway.

Thanks to odious TOSes, the average American commits three felonies a day, violations of the CFAA for which some whistle-blowers and journalists are serving sentences similar to [assassin] Scott Roeder (for the murder of Dr. George Tiller). The rest of us are not serving such sentences but for one officer or official who wants us to disappear.

In the meantime journalists continue to get charged with such violations, usually when their investigating something embarrassing to current administrations. The EFF has repeatedly raised a stink about this, but hasn't yet been able to change the law.

If your kid is under 13 and has social media accounts on specifically kid-friendly platforms (that, themselves teem with predators, salesfolk and law enforcement) then your kid is committing major federal crimes. On the light side, they totally have haxxor cred.

I recall a while back someone did a study that there are not enough hours in the day for an average person to actually read all the TOS documents they're expected to agree to. The idea that people can or should be responsible for knowing what's in a TOS is a legal fiction.

TOS documents are designed not to be read.

Some people don't get how you can separate understanding the logic of something and not supporting it at the same time.

Don't worry, that is normal. Im getting laughed at left and right for having my own root-server with all my services running on it, all FOSS.

Most of them were born with google already existing, it is part of nature. They haven't seen a giant go down yet.

Nice try, Google

Hey look it's the libertarian I was talking about in my other comment