Comment by robomartin

Reminds of the time when I was handed a 12 page NDA to sign for a six month consulting contract. I did my best to explain, in a nice and non-confrontational manner, just how difficult it was to even begin to consider such a beast. I would have to spend a thousand dollars with an attorney to have something like that deciphered and even more to reply to it with edits, etc.

That's what TOS feel like today. Even if you did read them, you probably need an attorney to fully comprehend what you are accepting. The agreement was created by one or more attorneys, sometimes a highly paid law-firm. The asymmetry in legal knowledge between reader and author is massive.

Perhaps the metric should be that an agreement should not require an attorney for interpretation by, say, the average high school graduate.

Hey, maybe that's a way to improve our system of education! Can you imagine what an agreement would look like if that was the metric?