17 minutes. This is the approximate time it takes to read Facebook’s terms and conditions of use, which determine what the platform can do with our content. The same goes for Google, which has a comprehensive Terms of Service page, or Instagram, X, Bluesky, Windows… The service, platform, video game or app you use has terms and conditions of use that you must agree to. whatever happens. There is also the blogging platform WordPress.

And it’s another thing to grant a platform a “worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license” to host, use, distribute, modify, maintain, reproduce, display, publicly communicate and translate your content. creating works.” derived from it.” Accepting the new condition for accessing our WordPress.org account is a completely different thing: that pineapple pizza is good.

WordPress.org login page | Capture: Xataka

What happened? Every user who accesses the wordpress.org login screen today will see a new box appear below the text boxes where the username and password must be entered. One where we have to tick yes or yes to be able to access the account. It could be argued that this is a crime against one of humanity’s greatest inventions. Something that forces us to confirm that “pineapple tastes delicious on pizza.”

Legal implications. In practice, there is none beyond the fact that checking this box may go against one’s moral principles. However, the origin of this particular requirement lies in the trial of WordPress and WP Engine. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is in dispute with WP Engine and a few months ago created a box that required users to verify that they were not affiliated with WP Engine. Last week, a judge forced Automattic to reverse the situation, and they did so in a strange way.

Wait a second, wordpress.org? Not to be confused with WordPress.com. A .com domain is a blogging and hosting service like Medium or Tumblr. The .org domain is the platform where we can download the software (WordPress) to host it on our hosting and access all kinds of resources. This beautiful box appeared in this space on .org.

Other interesting conditions. The world of terms and conditions can be quite entertaining, and there are interesting situations too. One of them is from the American VOD platform Peacock, which gave us the recipe for Kevin Malone’s chili (“The Office”) in the ninth part of the terms and conditions. This is not a joke.

If you use an Apple device, know that you agree not to use its products “for purposes prohibited by U.S. law, including, but not limited to, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear weapons, missiles, or chemical or biological agents.” weaponry.”

To give another example, if you used Java, we hope you are confident that you are not using it “for any purpose prohibited by export laws, including, but not limited to, the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.” development of missile technology.

Cover image | DAP

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