Twitter's sounds overbroad because they a) let people pay to boost tweets, b) sell API access to third party clients and developers, c) allow both user-curated and site-curated stories, and d) let people embed tweets on other sites. It's still not a rights grab.
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I really wish websites posted a diff between the old ToS versions when they did this, because people freak out *every single time*
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I mean, I hardcore sympathize with people who freak out, because it stems from them sensing (rightfully) that they are not Twitter's customers, they are the product Twitter sells. But that's the case for every VC and ad funded social network!
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The nonexclusive rights grant clause in a site's ToS isn't a function of that setup. You can verify that, even! Here's Dreamwidth's Terms of Service: https://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/tos
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DW is ad-free, has taken no venture capital, and doesn't sell user data in any way. We still have a nonexclusive rights grant clause! Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to send your posts from the webserver to the database server and back again.
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And gnomon has given me the link to the actual ToS diff: https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/4defb3c5b2c1c867c194c54494d6ada69e47d4c1?diff=split#diff-ca787fbf273ad31090b8a57a734c51c8 … If you don't know how to read diffs, the red is removed, the green is added. Actual changes are minor phrasing tweaks and clarification, with some choice of venue clauses changed for EU compliance.
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The complete inability of people to understand what this means EVERY TIME it comes up is possibly one of my greatest (petty) frustrations with other people on the internet.
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I'm from New Jersey so this isn't a fucking hardship for me
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It’s especially fun explaining an LMS ToS to a passel of faculty who are screaming like banshees on speed over intellectual property. Fortunately, if you shake a red cloak embroidered with “content restrictions” they’ll turn and charge that instead.
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