[IP] more on boy, I will avoid those stores djf if you wish company refuses to sell Internet services or other contract-based plans to people over 70 or under 70?
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From: Bob Frankston <ob2-19-0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 3, 2006 11:40:17 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Cory Doctorow <doctorow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [IP] boy, I will avoid those stores djf if you wish
company refuses to sell Internet services or other contract-based
plans to people over 70 or under 70?
I wonder what the real story is – is this a droid making up
explanations or an official policy?
Is it that the store owners simply think of the Internet as another
television channel and can’t understand it themselves?
If it is as presented then I’m curious about the contract. If it’s as
witless as Verizon’s (which has clauses like forbidding using the
connection to disparage Verizon) then a willingness to sign it may be
evidence of a failure to understand the contract – though I think of
many of this as more like the contract on the back of a parking lot
voucher – just there to frighten the children but being too absurd to
be enforceable and you don’t have a real option to bargain.
Why is it so important to “understand” the terms of the contracts.
Who is being protected and from what? If connectivity is vital then
is this akin to saying that people under 70 are no longer allowed out
of their house because they can’t understand the terms of the
sidewalk provider’s contract. (http://www.frankston.com/?
name=Sidewalks).
-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:05
To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IP] boy, I will avoid those stores djf if you wish company
refuses to sell Internet services or other contract-based plans to
people over 70
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From: Liz Ditz <ponytrax@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 3, 2006 10:48:45 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: for IP if you wish company refuses to sell
Internet services
or other contract-based plans to people over 70
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/03/carphone_warehouse_r.html
Cory Doctorow refuses to sell Internet services or other contract-
based plans to people over 70 unless they are accompanied by a young
person. They say that septugenarians are too old to understand the
terms of telecoms contracts.
Mrs. Greening-Jackson, who sits on the board of several charities,
said: “I was absolutely furious. The young man said, ‘Sorry, you’re
over 70. It’s company policy. We don’t sign anyone up who is over 70.’
“Later a young lady said company policy is that anyone over 70 might
not understand the contract. She said, ‘If you would be prepared to
go to the shop in town and take a younger member of your family we
might give you a contract.’
“I have just completed a visa form to go to Russia. Last year we did
one for walking the Wall in China and here is this person saying I
would not be able to understand a basic form - and it was basic. It
is pure ageism.
“Somebody has decided when you turn 70 you lose a lot of your mind. I
find this is ridiculous.”
original article from daily mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id@3333&in_page_id70
Liz Ditz
ponytrax@xxxxxxxxxx
blog: http://lizditz.typepad.com
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