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Authored by: complex_number on Friday, April 05 2013 @ 06:30 AM EDT |
Your points are well made PJ (as usual). I was trying to highlight this very
fact.
Add some legalese to satisfy the lawyers to the TOS to protect the company from
being sued for 'stuff' that might or might not be on the site and inadvertently
turn readers who fall foul of the TOS Into criminals.
I'd expect a field day if a case like this ever came to court. The defence
lawyer could really make life difficult for the DA by pointing out that unless
the TOS was presented in (clear language that a teenager could understand) on
every visit to every page and not hidden away somewhere (like in the small
print) how could their client be aware that the site was for adults only
especially is the site is aimed at teenagers or the population as a whole (viz,
News Sites).
The Left Hand of the lawmakers should really get to know what the right hand is
doing a whole lot better.
This is what unintended consequences is all about. fix one problem and suddenly
you find a side effect of that fix is to make > 50% of the population
criminals (ok, I'm exaggerating a bit).
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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