Just in time, via slashdot:
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Your Rights Online: Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic
Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 01, @01:26PM
from the get-ready-for-municipal-broadband dept.
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."
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So Verizon's new TOS says they can terminate you for essentially no reason whatsoever. The whole thing is reprehensible. Of special interest is this section:
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Originally Posted by Verizon AUP
(b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information, or engage in other similar activities, including without limitation, "spamming", "flaming" or denial of service attacks; [...](e) post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites;
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So if you contact an old friend via Facebook you could be banned (it may have been welcomed, but it
was uninvited after all!). If you drift a thread here on the Cellar (naw, that would never happen!) you'll be booted.
Oh, and you'll get cut off if you:
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(k) use the service in any fashion for the transmission or dissemination of images containing child pornography or in a manner that is obscene, sexually explicit, cruel or racist in nature or which espouses, promotes or incites bigotry, hatred or racism;
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Sure, kiddie porn is bad. It is also
against the law. The rest of it? It's what the internet was
founded on, man.
