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Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by blahedo on Saturday March 24, 2012 @10:16AM (#3749414)
I really, really, really wish that anyone posting updated TOS (and similar contract-y documents) would include a diff with the old one.
Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by Kudos on Saturday March 24, 2012 @11:45AM (#3749624)
Tumblr host their terms of service in a Git repo on Github.

https://github.com/tumblr/policy

Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by jedberg on Saturday March 24, 2012 @01:18PM (#3749928)
Reddit keeps theirs in a wiki: http://code.reddit.com/wiki/help/useragreement
Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by nebaneba on Saturday March 24, 2012 @01:50PM (#3750033)
Been interested in doing this too, but reconsidered since I don't know about property laws for EULAs/TOSs. But a public-facing TOS that tries to bind users and says "this document can change any time for any reason, and we will notify you by email, and it is your responsibility to keep up to date with it" should have some public domainness to it, even if it legally isn't: users should be able to "congregate publicly" to discuss their archived copies of TOSs.

(The counterargument of "don't use the service if you don't even agree with how the TOS is deployed" is technically agreeable but utterly impractical since "I am whimsical" clause in TOSs these days protects the vendor and not the user, and places 100% burden of trust on the user that the whimsical TOS will not arbitrarily screw you over later. Every vendor relies on the fact that there are so many other vendors out there, that some percent can eventually get a free ride on trust)

Suppose we provide the venue for congregation. How to ensure legal survivability?

Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by prezjordan on Saturday March 24, 2012 @12:31PM (#3749776)
I interned for an advertising aggregate - Evidon - and one of their projects is to monitor TOS for various advertising companies and show a diff. I wish it would catch on for everyone.
Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by metaprinter on Saturday March 24, 2012 @11:23AM (#3749576)
Like a changelog? I like it.
Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by SpikeDad on Saturday March 24, 2012 @11:30AM (#3749593)
If you can believe it. Who's going to check if their summary really matches the 75 page terms?
Re:Pinterest posts new Terms of Service by wmf on Saturday March 24, 2012 @02:10PM (#3750107)
EFF, CDT, PFIR, etc. If you release a deliberately misleading summary of your TOS, it triggers the "the coverup is worse than the crime" rule, magnifying the resulting scandal.