Facebook Votes 4 Stupidity

[vap0rtranz]

More hypocritical and redundant "democracy", this time from Facebook.  A vote is up for a "governing" document, called Rights and Responsibilities, that includes the following two rules:

3.8 You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
4.4 You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.

Comments

[erron3000]

The United States of Facebook

How many votes does it take to ratify the "Document of Governance?"

Hah!

[vap0rtranz]

Seriously.

[ragnarok20]

The later is unnecessary given the former.

No. You could be a sex offender without using facebook to do it. i.e. You could take your clothes off and strip across a football field and be convicted as a sex offender.

[vap0rtranz]

This is why philosophers ... suck. Context obviates the intent of the rules as 'use of Facebook'. One cannot use Facebook whilst flashing football kids; one can post pictures of yourself mooning the audience. My point was why separate one kind of felon that is contextually meaningful to Facebook, like fraud? or theft? It was probably put there to satisfy parents, but Facebook could stick to its guns and require a minimum age of 18.

Note that the rules actually imply that posting a picture, even privately, implies that no one can steal it. However, posting a private picture of one's bum and a 13 year old member somehow looking at it -- despite hacking or fraud or however they got to it -- could spell time in the slammer for *you*. The rules have gone too far in seeming to protect while actually protecting people less.