Google's new terms of service

[WagnersFourthSymphony]

Just giving people the heads up that this is very broad:
(excerpt from What we expect of you)

Respect others

We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of conduct:

We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of conduct:

comply with applicable laws, including export control, sanctions, and human trafficking laws

respect the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights

don’t abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or harm) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally impersonating, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others.

don’t abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt the services [..]. When we index the web to bring you search results, we respect standard usage restrictions that website owners specify in their websites’ code, so we require the same when others use our services

Bearing in mind who stalks these corridors, how differently they see the world, and the general phallic drift...

I work in tech, these are just rewordings/clarifications of the current terms

don’t abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or harm) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally impersonating, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others.

Nothing new here? It's always been suspendible to use Google services like this. And it all reduces their liability.

don’t abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt the services [..]. When we index the web to bring you search results, we respect standard usage restrictions that website owners specify in their websites’ code, so we require the same when others use our services

This just means that they will have civil rights (for breach of contract) for hacking, along with criminal charges. Usage restrictions mean things like "norobots" which basically will stop the search engine "crawlers" (what adds something to google) dead in their tracks. Nothing new here.

Good to know it's nothing new.

I just felt the sudden cold wind of vulnerability but that's probs just my paranoia.