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One relatively simple way to do this might be to pass legislation saying that the terms and conditions can only be up to a maximum number of words which must be
by motters 16y ago
One relatively simple way to do this might be to pass legislation saying that the terms and conditions can only be up to a maximum number of words which must be from a standard dictionary, with no links or supplemental articles permitted. This would encourage companies to be concise with their ToS, and discourage the use of "hidden clauses".
- motters 16y agoAnother way to phrase this might be that the terms of service document must take no more than 2 minutes to read, at some assumed average reading rate.
- bad_user 16y agoHow about 140 chars ToS, Twitter style ... You give us the right to publish your data and you don't have access to anything else other than what the Facebook UI and APIs provide. There, problem solved. Of course, writing this in legalese isn't so straightforward ... otherwise legions of lawyers and judges would be jobless. And they wouldn't be able to ban crawlers, other than search-engines ... and where's the fun in that?