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EFF Launches TOS Tracker
stoolpigeon writes with this quote from the EFF:
"'Terms of Service' policies on websites define how Internet businesses interact with you and use your personal information. But most web users don't read these policies — or understand that the terms are constantly changing. To track these ever-evolving documents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is launching TOSBack: a 'terms of service' tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay, and other major websites. ... The issue of terms-of-service changes — and how and why they are made — was highlighted earlier this year when Facebook modified its terms of use. Facebook users worried that the change gave the company the right to use members' content indefinitely. After a user revolt, Facebook announced that it would restore the former terms while it worked through the concerns users had raised."
Man, I think it's really great that someone's started a BitTorrent tracker just for old Star Trek episodes. I cannot tell you how often I've been thinking "Man, I really could use some Spockâ"McCoy foreplay right about now" and not have had the disk space to keep it all around at once! Thanks, EFF!
"TV-Web?" TV was much *better* before the web! Why, in my youth, there was no Internet! We didn't even have computers! We only saw them on Star Trek! The *Original Series*! And you know what? We *liked it*!
(TOS was Usenet shorthand for The Original Series of Star Trek.)