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0 pointsvlovich1235y ago0 comments

That sounds like how you wish the works worked vs how it does. Are you aware of a single court case where a judge dismissed it on those grounds?

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still_grokking5y ago

I don't know about US law but at least in Germany it's really like pointed out.

There is a law governing TOS terms, and it says among other things that the TOS can't contain unexpected und unrelated terms.

So if you write for example into the TOS governing your website something like that every visitor owes you 1000 bucks that won't be enforceable.

The TOS related legislation is nothing new. It was there already in the analog age to prevent companies form tricking people into signing inappropriate contracts.

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still_grokking5y ago

I don't know about US law but at least in Germany it's really like pointed out.

There is a law governing TOS terms, and it says among other things that the TOS can't contain unexpected und unrelated terms.

So if you write for example into the TOS governing your website something like that every visitor owes you 1000 bucks that won't be enforceable.

The TOS related legislation is nothing new. It was there already in the analog age to prevent companies form tricking people into signing inappropriate contracts.

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