[JR1427]

The current state of terms and conditions is a clear failure of modern law.

No one is reading them, and it would be practically impossible to do so. Signing something you cannot practically read and understand clearly does not mean you actually accept them.

How can we wake people up to this absurdity? The law should exist to help society. When it is not helping, reform it.

[gs17]

Worse, it's almost pointless to do so even if you had the time and knowledge, since they can just immediately change it after you read it.

[tkel]

What gets enshrined into law is a function of what powerful people in the society want enshrined. And these companies, their executives, and their beneficiaries are infinitely more powerful than individual users. In many ways the legal system is a compromise that companies tacitly agree to in order for legal/police protection in exchange for not hiring mercenaries and rebelling, as they do in some countries. The legal system has to serve their interests, or else powerful people would revolt. When they do revolt either violently or nonviolently, the laws shift and a new compromise is achieved. Or they just choose not to follow the laws and the state doesn't call them on their bluff, or if they do, it is only an entry-point to negotiation. Thus the current state of laws are a continuum of compromises between power players.

[buellerbueller]

300 billionaire families now fund 19% of US election dollars either directly or via superpac.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-e...