As the title is a direct quote - a statement of fact - it could hardly be less incendary.
Furthermore, it says that the presentations will become public, so presumably this was a paid subscription. I imagine this poison-pill was discreetly mentioned in the EULA, and maybe you think that makes it all OK, but then I wonder why anyone thinking that would regard its tweeting as incendiary.
Point taken - a case of "never attribute to malice...", though I think the burden of clarity rests mostly on the party making the stipulation in the first place. Even if the intended message was as you suggest, it is an informative case of how not to get your message across.
Yeah, completely agree with you there. I think the wording is straight up terrible.
I can sort of understand how this gets implemented this way - Making an excellent experience for the users who are no longer interested in paying you is a great way to go out of business when you have other, more important, problems to solve.
That said, who ever wrote the copy for that button should no longer by allowed to write copy (at least not in english...)
Except that their terms of service (at least now) say exactly the opposite:
> In the event your paid Prezi account reverts to a free Prezi Public account, any content you previously created with a paid Prezi account and designated as Private User Content will remain Private User Content, but you will not be able to edit such content. New content you create with such an account will become Public User Content, which means any new content you create from that point forward is going to be public.
Ok, so in the interest of a genuine conversation here, what gives you such a strong reaction to this?
I see this as basically identical to having paid for a storage unit or a safety deposit box.
I paid to store things there. When I stopped paying they got dumped out.
I don't genuinely believe it would have much impact. Basically no one views the content I really try to make public, so who's going to hunt down those docs?
The company isn't saying "When you cancel we'll send an email to your spouse, boss, and parents with all your private documents". They're just saying - "Hey, we're tossing your documents in the bin over there because you stopped paying to store things"
Why is that anywhere close to as bad as revenge porn?
Furthermore, it says that the presentations will become public, so presumably this was a paid subscription. I imagine this poison-pill was discreetly mentioned in the EULA, and maybe you think that makes it all OK, but then I wonder why anyone thinking that would regard its tweeting as incendiary.