don't leave comments at Rolling Stone

"wkiernan" (wkiernan) 05/21/2018 at 21:30 • Filed to: nonsense

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Look at this nonsense! This is from the thing you click through to read some article:

(e) Editorial Use. In addition, we may use information you provide us through emails, blogs, forums, in response to polls, or through any other user generated submission for editorial purposes, and may use your name and any stories you provide us in articles published in our Publications. If you provide us with personal anecdotes, they may be attributed to you. PMC can edit, rewrite, use, and reuse the content, including your name, likeness, photograph, and biographical information you provide, with or without attribution, including publication in the Publications, and in trade media, and advertising. You hereby consent to this.

So in comments for an article on Rolling Stone, you might innocently post, for example:

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

and they are legally permitted, for whatever whim possesses them and with predetermined impunity, to edit it to read

Kill the *******s! Lynch ‘em all! ARRRGH!

sincerely yours, Nibby

and then the Internet Dectectives get to work, and the next thing you know “Nibby” has been “outed” as Howard P. Frankson of Lawrenceville, Ohio, wholesome and fun-loving family man, and there are shouting picketers outside the roofing company where he works, and HPF is desperately crying “I swear to Gaod I never wrote that shit I musta got hacked! ” and the protesters are all “Yeah, sure , asshole.”

Don’t let it happen to you!

Urambo Tauro > wkiernan 05/21/2018 at 21:52

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...By posting any Content on the Service, however, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to and do grant, to GMG a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and GMG’s (and its successors, assignees, or affiliates) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats, whether now known or hereafter developed, and through any media channels or search engines for commercial and noncommercial purposes alike...

wkiernan > Urambo Tauro 05/21/2018 at 22:05

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Well sir, I would hate , right here in their living room , to point any finger of accusation at our gracious hosts at GawkerCo

but if you want to I can’t very well object!

Mercedes Streeter > wkiernan 05/21/2018 at 22:06

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Nearly every site you’ll ever post on (including this one) has that exact same policy.

Remember, these sites are still owned by businesses, so our rights mean squat. They own everything we say or post.

In fact, Nick Denton wanted Kinja to be a content farm for the front page blogs. Basically they can get well-written stories for free.

My bird IS the word > wkiernan 05/21/2018 at 22:07

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I don’t patronize politically charged websites, especially liberal ones lol

wkiernan > Mercedes Streeter 05/21/2018 at 22:17

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And they do!

But the “free to edit” thing, which, as you say, is everywhere, is just so over the top. I mean, you asshole lawyers, come the fuck on here. You fuckers can delete something if you don’t like it, of course you’re free to do that on your own servers, but don’t go editing people’s posts and then reposting them over those people’s signatures. So you may say “but we don’t do that!!!” Well then, don’t leave room for it, just take it out of your bullshit license document.

Mercedes Streeter > wkiernan 05/21/2018 at 22:36

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Heck, back when Gawker was a thing, front page authors used to copy entire Kinja community posts, change very little, then publish it as if they did all the hard work.