mccAug 14, 2024

This post sounds like a joke https://dads.cool/@hex/112961980923861421

However, it is not https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

Summary: A man signed up for a free 1 month trial of "Disney+". That trial contained an arbitration provision. Disney is now arguing in court that arbitration provision covers, literally, the Disneyworld theme park killing his wife

Laserdisc Dad (@[email protected])

love the implication that "trying a one month free trial" where there's a big asterisk next to free leads to a line that says "this corporation is legally allowed to murder you now"

dads.cool
Show threadmccAug 14, 2024
If you went to a cyberpunk author from the early 80s and said "in 40 years murder will become legal because of a contract provision the Disney corporation attached to a television show" the author would go "yes, yes, of course, exactly that scenario is in my book" and then pause and say "wait but you mean like, for real?"
Show threadIrenes (many)Aug 15, 2024

@mcc we're also deeply distressed that the legal defense appears to be that it's the wife's estate, not the husband, who is the plaintiff, and that she wasn't the one who signed up for the now-long-expired free trial

and not, for example, that the argument has no merit due to its obvious absurdity

Show threadmccAug 15, 2024

@ireneista Typically lawyers work every angle available to them simultaneously. But…

Yeah.

Show threadIrenes (many)
@mcc yes, absolutely. we're glad there's a solid argument that this bullshit can't work because of a technicality, but we wish there were a solid argument that it can't work because it's evil supervillain shit.
Aug 15, 2024 at 12:09amWeb
Show threadkouhai, of the health issuesAug 15, 2024
@ireneista and more specifically, there’s also the shrink wrap argument, which i think is roughly “no reasonable person can be expected to believe that clicking this agreement will lead to waiving rights in the context of this specific service […]” etc
Show threadIrenes (many)Aug 15, 2024
@kouhai oh good. yes. we remember the shrink wrap contract law stuff, thank you very much for pointing out the connection.