Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic

RasputinAXP writes "Verizon has changed their FiOS AUP effective yesterday, and added an interesting new clause to their specific examples that we're all familiar with: 'it is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to ... post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites.' At this point, every FiOS-based Slashdot user is breaking the new AUP."

Comments

Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2

[Anonymous Monkey]

Yum Potato Pancakes!

Re:haha that's funny

[Fritz T. Coyote]

Raise your hand if you remember when putting "NO CARRIER" in a post was considered Rude as it could make some terminal emulators think the modem had dropped the call.

OK, get your health care aid to help you raise your hand.

Now all of you kids get off my lawn!

Making everyone a criminal is convenient

[aaandre]

Because now Veri$on will be able to disconnect anybody for any reason under the pretext of breaking a rule. Quite convenient. Same with government and the thousands of laws.

Not every law is applied to everybody, but when anybody becomes inconvenient, there are enough laws to take them out of the picture.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupted the state.

Re:I'm Not!

[quickOnTheUptake]

I suspect this is just the next level of ISPs' disallowing spamming. They probably aren't planning to actively enforce it, but if it were to come to their attention that one of their accounts is being used to post 100's of more or less subtle marketing messages a day to forums, they reserve the right to cut the account off.
That said I actually have no idea, just a guess.

Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2

[Grax]

Excuse me but I think the parent post is on-topic, which is obviously off-topic for this topic.

Don't forget to tip your waitress over!
I'll be here all week. Unless they let me out.

Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2

[Carbaholic]

And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks

Oopsie

[rindeee]

What Verizon (Comcast, and others) are going to learn the hard way is the liability that comes along with this. IANAL, but, from experience I understand that if you specifically say something is prohibited, but then do not enforce prohibition of it and someone causes harm to another where it would have been precluded had you enforced the prohibition of said activity, guess who's liable. :)

Re:Part (b) : "flaming"

[MindlessAutomata]

(b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information, or engage in other similar activities,

This reminds me how silly and broad these ToSes are. That appears to even making pinging against the ToS. What is an "uninvited communication" when it comes to the internet?

Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2

[i.r.id10t]

Yeah but the chick that plays Alice had some nudie pix leaked about a month ago...