Facebook creates world's third largest democracy

When La Raza and ACORN get budget money (read - election victory kickback with agreement for future support) from Obama... it is clear that the US can no longer be called a democracy. After watching an election cycle where a candidate had outspent his opponent 3:1, spent more than the past 2 elections combined, spent more than the GDP of numerous nations, and doing all this after decrying the impact of money on elections... well the US is no longer a democracy, it is run by people the best money can buy. When a group of 'elected' officials can call a 3.6tTril budget with only 2.4Tril coming in in revenue, a responsible spending plan, relecting our priorities (Pelosi); the US can no longer be called a democracy.

Thus facebook should be called the 2nd largest democracy

Only another couple of hundred accounts to go and I can make policy on my own!
Its just like a real democracy - you can buy votes anywhere now!

I lasted all of three months on Facebook. It's little more than a self promotion device for the Internet age. Sign up for this-or-that page to show you stand for whatever cause....but don't bother actually participating. I never saw so many fan/interest pages with zero activity.

Pass out virtual gifts, play virtual games, reconnect with virtual people you haven't seen in over twenty years just to have them say "hi!".....and that's it. "Democracy?" Why not, it's as meaningful as anything else in that place.

Democracy! It all started a long time ago in a garden, somebody using a snake to say in so many words "The first guy lied to you, but voting for me is a vote for yourselves." Well here we are, still experimenting with self governments that lead to nowhere.

To prove this is simple: Global problems no matter how you try cannot be voted away. Leadership dies when leaders die. Changes add more formulas to decipher perpetually.

The fact that we are still alive as a human race, tells me the first guy will fix things back in their original places, in the near future.

Someone has been watching to much of the O'Riley factor. ACORN, like any other organization has people who want to make money, for example the people registering other people want to make money. So what do the people registering people do? they make up people they can register to make more money, that is what happens and that is what happened. It was ACORN who came forward about it, not some republican. Also people who are registering republicans do the same thing. So its not some Democrat only thing.

While everyone is getting all hot and bothered over some concept of democracy, the thing I retain from this article is simply that Facebook has brilliantly demonstrated the total lack of legal basis for EULAs.
In commercial law, a contract is only binding if both parties sign it. That point is covered by the so-called acceptance of conditions when users sign on, so far so good.
However, what all companies miss (intentionally, of course) is that any change to a contract must be once again signed by both parties. That supposes negotiation and approval of modifications by both parties. I doubt very much that simply putting up a checkbox to approve already-made changes to an EULA fits the negotiation part of the scenario.
I would eventually acknowledge the legal value of an EULA at the condition that no company can ever change the terms.
Basing legal consent on an html file somewhere on the web, the content of which the end user has no control over, is not a legal or binding contract in my view.
Thus there is simply no EULA that has any value whatsoever. CQFD.
It's high time the law did away with this EULA nonsense.