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Thank you for your clarification! I don't know any of the legal specifics of this stuff and I very much appreciate you taking the time to help educate me and anyone else who needs it. I can only give a conceptual argument based on the history I've seen with these companies, but not any sort of specific knowledge of law.
The gist of what you're saying, and what we've actually seen play out recently, is technically they shouldn't be able to do this, but they're going to lawyer it in such a way that they'll get away with it unless/until someone actually sues them which is prohibitively expensive. We have recently seen class action suits against Meta, but realistically the damage has already been done, the money has already been made, and they go on with finding the next cash cow. Even a multimillion dollar settlement is a drop in the bucket, simply the cost of doing business for these people.
Exactly so! 🙂😭