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I don’t think the simile fails for that reason. “Informed consent” is generally accepted as the standard, and it’s arguable that click-through EULAs are not in
by LocalH 5y ago
I don’t think the simile fails for that reason. “Informed consent” is generally accepted as the standard, and it’s arguable that click-through EULAs are not in any way “informed consent” for the average person.
To bring the original simile full circle, let’s say a person signs a contract with another person, and then that person forces themselves on them. I doubt the presence of a clause in the contract saying “I agree to have sex with X” would absolve them of guilt.
- jeofken 5y agoThere certainly is a difference in harm between forcing sex and sending unique user IDs, and it’s not unreasonable to make a contract about the latter if one wishes, is it? This is rather a reason to prefer free software licenses. Culture has yet to catch up to this, but in the long run I hope the collective consciousness learns to distrust and avoid complicated proprietary software licences.