[victorbjorklund]

HN terms: "By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed."

[digitaltrees]

Sites need to include this language to protect themselves from malicious law suits. But they don’t need to actually do stupid, disrespectful stuff with that power.

Remember the Zuck quote when asked why people gave him their data: “they trust me, dumb f*cks”.

When someone shows you who they are, trust them. He should be banned from having user data.

[endofreach]

> Sites need to include this language to protect themselves from malicious law suits

No, they do not. They do need to have people believe they do need to.