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Response to stupid people on Facebook who think law is fun.
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You know these awful posts on Facebook?

Well I was still up at 4am and saw one on Facebook and I had nothing better to do, so I figured I'd start looking at the stupid crap it claims to be helpful.

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Firstly, UCC Article 1 § 308 can only be enacted when signing commercial contracts and protects you from unknowingly giving up any rights. 1 However, you did not enact UCC Article 1 § 308 upon registering for Facebook, I'm pretty sure. But, if you knew about it then, this post wouldn't be here, and you wouldn't have allowed the next error.

Secondly, the Rome Statute is a part of the International Crime Court and is for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression; 2 furthermore the Rome Statute is not even ratified in the US 3 even if it did apply to this situation. If, however, Facebook magically killed every single person whose data they used, maybe this would apply. 4

Thirdly, Facebook has been a public company since 2012-05-18 when they held their IPO, 5 becoming publicly traded. I have no idea what this has to do with anything though.

When you signed up for Facebook, you agreed to their Terms of Service which means you also agree to the Data Use Policy 6 which says that they can do whatever they want with your data since they received your permission (agreed to these terms, and your privacy settings), this policy exists and you claimed to have read it when you signed up, and they just have to remove any personally identifiable information from the content before posting it around. 7

TL;DR: This post does literally nothing. If you want Facebook to not use your pictures, information, or posts ever again, nuke your Facebook and don't come back. You agreed to their terms and their ever-changing behavior like 5 years ago, you don't now get to decide which parts apply to you.

  1. http://bit.ly/1zNWLKM (simply: http://bit.ly/1xwC7BO)
  2. http://bit.ly/1F9njhU (simply: http://bit.ly/14oZYIW)
  3. http://bit.ly/1F9nbyN (simply: http://bit.ly/14oZXof ¶ 2)
  4. http://bit.ly/1xJXmlI
  5. http://bit.ly/1tJKJWk
  6. http://on.fb.me/1BzTwZr § 1
  7. http://on.fb.me/1AoSjVu
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