Hello. Some comments on the Reddit user agreement. Please also read and
add information for their:
Privacy policy: https://www.reddit.com/help/privacypolicy
Licensing: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/licensing
Content policy: https://www.reddit.com/help/contentpolicy
All of the following comments are from the user agreement.
*** Negative ***
Terminate account and the *paid* gold memebrship service without notice:
"Without advance notice and at any time, we may, for violations of this
agreement or for any other reason we choose: (1) suspend your access to
reddit, (2) suspend or terminate Your Account or reddit gold membership,
and/or (3) remove any of your User Content from reddit."
Overly one-sided content policy:
"You may not otherwise make unauthorized commercial use of, reproduce,
prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly
display reddit content, except as permitted by the doctrine of fair use
or as authorized in writing by us.
[...]
you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive,
unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works,
distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any
medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to
authorize others to do so."
The user has to pay for Reddit's legal fees in a dispute, I think:
"you agree to hold reddit, its affiliates, officers, directors,
employees, agents, and third party service providers harmless from and
defend them against any claims, costs, damages, losses, expenses, and
any other liabilities, including attorneys’ fees and costs, arising out
of or related to your access to or use of reddit, your violation of this
user agreement, and/or your violation of the rights of any third party
or person."
The fragment "arising out of or in any way connected to your use of
reddit" is far too broad:
"You agree to release us, our affiliates, and third-party service
providers, and each associated director, employee, agents, and officers,
from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential), of every
kind and nature, known and unknown, disclosed or undisclosed, arising
out of or in any way connected to your use of reddit."
*** Positive ***
Will notify of new agreements and keep old ones online (partial
negative: only notifies of changes that "materially affect your rights"):
"We may modify this user agreement at any time. If we make changes to
this agreement that materially affect your rights, we will provide
advance notice and keep this edition available as an archive on the
reddit website."
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