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To Read or Not To Read: Is It Really A Question?
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
The Terms of Service, an agreement whose name you’re probably familiar with, but what about the contents of the infamous agreement? Chances are you’ve never even read one line, yet you have probably agreed to the terms multiple times in your Internet tenure.
On Twitter and Facebook in the past eight months, there were over 1,700 individuals who came out and admitted their secret: they don’t read any website or web services terms of service prior to signing up.
Why is this you ask?
Well, complaints included the agreement being too long for starters, while others just flat out didn’t care — they just wanted access to a site or service.
But really, should you care about what you’re potentially agreeing to?
In an ideal world, yes. However, the fact of the matter is that if you want to be on Facebook with your friends, you’ll agree to their terms, as there’s no way for you to negotiate your own terms of service.
Follow the Leader
Friday, July 20th, 2012
It’s been a few weeks since your last new Twitter follower and frustration begins to set is as you try to grow your brand. Then begins the search on how to gain more Twitter followers. There are websites dedicated to the problem at hand and for just as little as five dollars, one can gain 1k followers in less than 24 hours! Too good to be true? Maybe. But five dollars can be spared for an extra few followers, especially if that meant looking a little more relevant.
Kuwaiti Serving Ten Years for Twitter Insult
Monday, June 4th, 2012
Before putting someone on blast via Twitter, you might want to take a second to think about if you might receive jail time for it. Social media is changing the face of the Criminal Justice System, as we know it. We are all too familiar with the ongoing case of the 18-year-old Rutger’s student jumping to his death after his roommate exploited him by streaming live video that has put cyber bullying on the map for the court systems. Social media isn’t black and white and has a gray area that we still are trying to decide considerable jail time or a slap on the wrist.
Unfortunately for one man, social media went from tweeting straight to handcuffs. A ten-year prison sentence was given to a Kuwaiti man after being convicted of endangering state security by insulting towards the Prophet Mohammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. 26-year-old Shi’ite Muslim Hamad al-Naqi pleaded innocent to all charges against him made last month from his Twitter faux pas. Naqui’s tweet was considered blasphemy, which is illegal in Kuwait under the 1961 press and publications law. Naqi was found guilty after he claimed he did not post the messages and that his Twitter account had been hacked. Another case similar to Naquis’ is A Turkish Pianist who is facing charges against him for mocking Islamic beliefs about paradise in April. If convicted, he could spend up to a year and half in jail for inciting hatred and public enmity, insulting “religious values”.
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