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0 pointsWowfunhappy5y ago0 comments

Why should you need to sign a TOS in order to use some consumer software? No, what would happen is TOS's would go away for everything but high-level professional software.

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colejohnson665y ago

Websites with accounts all have TOS because they need some legal recourse to boot you from their platform. The TOS lays out what you are allowed to do on the site (in addition to other things). That’s not changing no matter what you (or I) wish would happen without a massive change in how the legal system works in America.

WowfunhappyOP5y ago

I just don’t think this is a real problem. Restaurants and theaters can kick me out be being disruptive. Websites can ban ip’s used in DDOS attacks even if the user never actually visited the site and thus could not have seen a ToS.

Without ToS’s companies might have to spend some small amount of money on court proceedings they would prefer to avoid. A portion of those lawsuits may be worthwhile.

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colejohnson665y ago

WowfunhappyOP5y ago

Without ToS’s companies might have to spend some small amount of money on court proceedings they would prefer to avoid. A portion of those lawsuits may be worthwhile.

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