“Our Terms Have Changed” – Investment Watch

by Charles Hugh-Smith

So go forward and say no matter you need round all of your networked gadgets, however don’t be shocked if unhealthy issues begin occurring.

I acquired one other “Our Phrases Have Modified” electronic mail from a Massive Tech quasi-monopoly, and for a change I truly learn this one. It was a revelation on a number of fronts. I’m reprinting it right here in your studying pleasure:

We wished to let you recognize that we lately up to date our Situations of Use.

What hasn’t modified:

Your use constitutes your settlement to our Situations of Use.

We personal all of the content material you create on our platform, gadgets and networks, and are free to monetize it by any means we select.

We personal all the info we acquire on you, your gadgets, purchases, social networks, views, associations, beliefs and illicit viewing, your location knowledge, who you might be in proximity to, and no matter knowledge the networked gadgets in your house, automobiles and workplaces acquire.

We have now the unrestricted proper to ban you and all of your content material, shadow-ban you and all of your content material, i.e., generate the phantasm that your content material is freely, publicly obtainable, and erase your digital presence solely such that you simply stop to exist besides as a corporeal physique.

What has modified:

If we detect you could have optimistic views on anti-trust enforcement, we could report you as a “particular person of curiosity / potential home extremist” to the Nationwide Safety Company and different federal companies.

Somewhat than reply to all disputes algorithmically, now we have established a Star Chamber of our most biased, fanatical staff to adjudicate buyer/consumer disputes through which the client/consumer refuses to just accept the algorithmic mediation.

If a buyer/consumer makes an attempt to contact any enforcement company concerning our algorithmic mediation or Star Chamber adjudication, we reserve the unrestricted rights to:

a. Put together voodoo dolls representing the consumer and stick pins into the doll whereas chanting curses.

b. Hack the focused consumer’s accounts and blame it on Russian or Ukrainian hackers.

c. Rendition the consumer to a corrupt kleptocracy through which we retain undue affect, i.e., the US.

Left unsaid, in fact, is the potential for “accidents” to occur to anybody publicly selling anti-trust enforcement of Massive Tech quasi-monopolies. As soon as totalitarianism has been privatized, there are not any guidelines that may’t be ignored or damaged by these backstage. So go forward and say no matter you need round all of your networked gadgets, however don’t be shocked if unhealthy issues begin occurring.

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