[swat535]

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.

[goodrubyist]

I'm an average person and I read them all the time. It's not usually 400 pages long. More like 3-4 pages. If a person genuinely can't understand, they should not use the service. That's not sarcasm, I, myself, do not like to sign contracts I cannot understand -- but that's rare when you can look up stuff.

[inigyou]

Terms of service aren't even legally binding!

[goodrubyist]

Wikipedia and a few other sites I saw say otherwise for the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service Wouldn't make much sense otherwise.