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goodrubyist an hour ago

Agreeing to terms and contracts without reading or at least skimming them is not responsible adult behavior and should not be used as a model for legislation, no matter how many people do it. I agree that we do have a culture where private law is not taken very seriously, and that's very unfortunate.

People do not have a right (morally speaking, not legally) to access or use a service (or a website) etc without having to read/agree to the terms (applies to analog and digital).

swat535 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Terms of services and contracts are written for lawyers and not the average people.

If your terms require people to get a law degree and take a week to parse the 400 page document, then I would argue that it's a tactic to get people to sign up for the service without fully understanding it.

We need legislation that forces companies to communicate the terms in a way that an average person can comprehend.

sumeno 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How much of https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ have you actually read?

Maxion an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Try to get anything done then, there's so many places these days where you have to approve 300 page legal documents to e.g. record day care times, pick up packages and so forth. There is literally not enough time in the day. The option for me would be to not put my kid in daycare (I lose the spot if I don't put in the daycare times, and the only way to do that is a 3rd party service) and not pick up packages (have to agree to the EULA to get the app that I need to unlock the pickup locker) and dozens of other places.

We really need to stop companies from putting up these insanely complicated legal texts to use basic services when they could all be behind standard contracts.