Let's define units of stakes, it could take into account more things but this could be one of the usable definitions:
Dim a stake as 0.00000000001% GDP (including equivalents)
When the stakes are below 10, common popular customs defined by influencers apply
When the stakes are above 10 but lower than 100, the terms and conditions should apply
Now since units of stakes have been defined, people could have multiple versions of Legal Fields applied to their contents.
When the stakes are above 100, below 500, the pro terms and conditions would apply, and so on and so on.
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Equivalence definition could be referenced from barter tax laws... (maybe)
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Now that we could have multiple terms, I hope at higher stakes there could be a requirement for corporations to sit down and consider counter contracts from their counterparts. Single way contract at high stakes should not be applied unwillfully to another. At least we should be able to express our will in a socially commonly intuitive manner.
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The power to refuse from being involved in something, including in higher stake interactions should be a right, and should be protected, for that being a part of Justice
Privacy: https://www.ovo.id/kebijakan-privasi
Terms : https://www.ovo.id/syarat-ketentuan
Although this is in Bahasa Indonesia but one thing that's striking about the way they are written and presented are that they are really nice to read. The colors gave you this chill and smooth feeling, while reading it in Bahasa Indonesia is also pretty smooth as they keep it commonly comprehensible.
I'd like to emphasize that I'm not all celebrating 100% of the contents, but it's still delightful to know that there are people that actually put their passion into writing these legal documents so that we could have good relationships with each other. Shows that there's hope in humanity (hahaha). Seriously human beings should really consider the legal matters of things between their relationships because they are as real as logic and feelings, a matter of legacy as much as culture, and a matter of wisdom and humbleness (conservatism) as much as advices that leads to Truthful freedom among each other. So legal relationships between human beings are also bonds of kinship that shouldn't be overlooked.
I'd like to point out in general that such legal documents would be easier to read if they had some sense of spontaneity in them. If all legal documents were monotonous but a little bit different, or in Bahasa Indonesia but actually just a straight translation from English, they would be incredibly hard to read. You had to read it because it's not the same, but really your whole instinct said that it's the same, so then you'd had to exterted the effort to fight that "laziness" while trying to discover the slight uniqueness of the texts relative to their "twins", and then tried to understand it as a paragraph, and then tried to understand it as the whole text and then in the context of the particular relationship.
So legal documents such as GoJek's, this one OVO, FFBE WOTV's, are examples of those that had spontaneity elements in them. Google and Microsoft's also, Google and Microsoft are trying to have their own things but their services are huge, and its to be expected within the heftiness of those documents mostly would be cliché. Probably other service providers were inspired by Microsoft's. I couldn't appreciate enough how Google is trying really hard to make their legal documents intuitive, very creative (but they shouldn't lose the pressing and the seriousness context of the legal documents, should you walk in the park? or should you run in a warzone? The ambiguousness of the context is a prevalent difficulty).
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After repeated reading, I decided that even though the format is nice but I disagree about a clause that forbid me from hurting the companies' reputation. Like now, could I be considered hurting their reputation? Rather arguable whether or not it's a free speech issue isn't it. (Referring to the T&C valid 4 Maret 2021, part I.3, accessed 11'th of February 2022).
So I decided to end my relationship.
Here's another problem, some media won't actually deleted everything of my data even after I've specifically asked them to erase my data. Blibli.com for example, still have my email and still sending me messages.
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Edit: 3rd of March 2022,
I talked about "twins" being harder to read, I actually found that it's not. But I wasn't lying though I can't really explain it but I'd just say I didn't know what I was talking about.
I'm reading a text now and I found it easier to read texts similar to what I had read before. So what was I talking about? I don't know
Edit again: I guess it's this, if the terms and conditions were huge / hard also difficult to comprehend, having familiar texts would help. But having texts that are novel while easy to understand is better than hefty collections of cliche
If only there's a Public Place of the Internet that is not owned by companies, people could go there and hang out and do various activities together. Their terms and conditions should be universal as well.
People who go there could have general expectations of what kind of customs should apply as well as what information would be exchanged in public places, and they would be right.
Currently the internet is a public place thank God, only its like a huge piece of land, it has no park, no public venues, no roads, no bridges, everything's private. Free market is great, however this free market is monopolistic with little alternatives. Yes yes, I'm not against free market its because of the anti-competitive practices and law, points arguable, but lets not go there (the considerations are heavy and would segway the topic). The reality is, there's little alternatives to google and facebook. Twitch and tik tok, crunchyroll maybe, but even so its still too few.
Instead of private social medias, we should have open source social medias that have a universal terms and conditions and privacy policy, an open venue where people could open up different kinds of stalls of social applications there.
To finance the venue the social medias could implement the golden sticker system
NVIDIA's EULA and Privacy Policy linked from their GeForce Experience installer is just more than 1 page long, both of them. I take it as my dreams could come true. I could zoom out the page to 50% and everything fit.
Since the EULA doesn't appear in their website I can't link to the document from here. But the privacy policy (accessed in May, 2021) should be checked out, it is really compact compared to other big companies' privacy policies
Very Nice :)
So I was browsing Mr Eric Berg DC in youtube, and found out he was on this social media I never heard of.
Turned out it has Sir Tim Berners-Lee the world wide web inventor as its advisor, and it uses the Privacy Bill of Rights that I think is soooo great
I think there's a benefit in governments took away people's phone number from the telecommunications providers. Just the number not the services, so that when we objected to certain practices, we could just change to their competitors without having to change number.
Cause this is not 2001 when our number is just a relationship between the company and us, now it is tied to our banking, to other important applications that contains our public administrative identities. How could we change number now? and moreover in the future?
Cause there are clauses in most terms and conditions where they could change the terms and conditions, the contract, at their own whim and our continued usage of their services would be considered as acceptance and binding. If it were a business contract you would be scratching our hair vigorously and objected to it with passion.
The digital terms and conditions might seem harmless some years ago, but overtime people are going to face problems, and one way or the other they are going to be "forced" to abuse some of the terms or clauses to their benefit, something unusual. Let's say in another 3 years they're going to want to do it again, and their business were going to be built upon the abuse... for example it used to be just a company storing your data in their own server, now they are sharing your data with third parties, and then next they couldn't conduct their businesses without it, the overtime there would come a need to require you to guarantee permission to your data for the next 2 years or 5 years... I mean something like that, since nobody's paying attention, and nobody's calling them out, it's only usual that they are going to build upon it and build upon it and build upon it.
Now I'm reading this telecommunication company's terms and conditions, and if it were other sites on the internet I would just object to the usual, lengthy, foreign, and hard to decipher, but now what's at stake is my number that I've been using for long and for most of my lifestyle needs... I couldn't just object... and what if they started some predatory practices? there's nothing I could do about it but to change my number... and then I had to start over again (I would be missing some data update with other applications that might still be tracking my interests based on the old number).
This is not good, but what could I do about it?
