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I hate that any online company can set arbitrary Terms of Service which they know for a FACT I have not read (I didn't click) and then decide to pull the rug ou
by habosa 7y ago
I hate that any online company can set arbitrary Terms of Service which they know for a FACT I have not read (I didn't click) and then decide to pull the rug out from me at any time because of that.
These companies are seriously important in our lives. If you take away my payment source or my email or whatever you are potentially setting me on a path to ruin.
I don't know what the answer is but I do think these companies should be required to have an appeal process of some kind that's regulated. They have so much power.
- gorgoiler 7y agoEven if you did click to accept the terms of service, their server knows you probably didn’t read it. They know exactly how long it was between you being served the contract, and you accepting it. Clearly if that time is anything under a number of minutes or hours you can’t possibly be agreeing to the contract and so they should be duty bound to refuse service. I look forward to a test case where a judge rules a terms-of-service contract unenforceable because the vendor logged that I read it in 3.2 seconds and accepted that as me having read it. Or maybe it’s time to start being that person again, who reads contracts slowly and in full before signing.
- ianai 7y agoActually I’d suggest we all take some time to learn the law. Actual legal practices and whatever. I’m increasingly of the impression that lawyers are the real first class citizens of a constitutional government.