Sentences with phrase «public backlash forced»

Although public backlash forced the Korean government to backtrack on its ban plans, the death scare was enough to show us a brief glimpse of what an ugly crash could look like.

Here's what Facebook tried to get away with in 2009 (a public backlash forced it to tone down the language): «You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.»

Not exact matches

Wells Fargo & Co.'s attempt to force aggrieved customers into closed - door arbitration over its fake - accounts scandal is drawing a legislative backlash in its home state of California and risks subjecting the bank to another round as a public punching bag.

But the Blair Force One plan was sunk by a public backlash to what was seen as unacceptable largesse.

It might be more difficult in a democratic state such as Greece as citizens could easily force the government to cancel the deal if there's enough public backlash.

If nothing else, that big majorities of both parties in Congress felt the need to greatly ease federal force in elementary and secondary education — at least overt federal force — is a powerful testament to the breadth of the public backlash against federally driven standardization, testing, and «accountability.»

This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).

When I wrote the first edition of «The War Against the Greens» in 1994 I predicted that the violent «Wise Use» backlash against environmentalists created by public lands industries like mining and timber might someday be superceded by a more powerful force.

But waiting until it was confronted with evidence of the deletions and public backlash shows Facebook is only being transparent with users when forced.