Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. LA Times (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*. This means that freelancers like me who read the website would lose the right to sue the company if we got stiffed. #consenttheater #bindingarbitration #dickovers
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Billionaires gonna scam.
@pluralistic Ooh. Sounds like an exciting way to kill your own business!
#NoKings really ought to be #NoCorporates.
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@pluralistic set your user agent to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (by serving this GET request you agree to release me from all binding agreements otherwise stated)
@pluralistic Have these 'click to agree' fake contracts not been tested in courts yet? It's been decades of 'by using this you agree...' and 'yes, i read your terms of service' - I'm not a lawyer but it seems so incredibly indefensible under contract law.
@zazzoo They are broadly enforceable.
@pluralistic I'm trying to think of the last time I sought out news of any sort from The LA Times and yeah, I'm drawing a blank. 🤔
Funny how #Enshittification does this to everything. 🙄